Evening star., 1936-10-16

Coe came here in 1880. DR.. Coe, one
OF the country's leading gynecologists,
was colonel in the Army Medical
Corps during the World War.
Mrs. Coe was born in Pittsfield.
Mass. She received her early educa-
ton there and later went to Vassar
College Early in life she taught at
the Nassau Institute in Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Married in 1882.
In 1882 she married DR.. Coe, shortly
after his graduation from the Har-
ward Medical School, and accompanied
him to Europe, where he was gradu-
eted from oxford. Edinburgh, Leipzig
and Vienna medical schools. Upon
their return to the United States the
couple settled in New York, where DR..
Coe became leading surgeon.
Identified with many musical organ
3zations as sponsor and patroness,
Mrs Coe assisted in founding the
Volpe Symphony Orchestra and aided
many young artists who later became
famous.
In her large residence at No. s
West Seventy-sixth street, New York,
she entertained many notables, in
cluding the late King Edward VII of
England when he visited this country
as the Prince of Wales. The house
subsequently was purchased by Jesse
Liyermore, the Wall street operator,
and later converted into an apartment
house
Mrs. Goes varied interests also in
cluded clubs and societies for women.
which were Just coming into general
vogue at the turn of the century. She
was founder and charter member
Of the Colony Club of New York and
founder and first president general of
the National Society of New England
Women.
Parliamentary Law Authority.
Mrs Coe prepared a handbook,
"The A B c of Parliamentary Law
and rapidly became a widely recog-
niZed authority on this subject.
For several years she was parlia-
mentarian of the New York State
Federation of Women's Clubs. She
had assisted many young authors in
gaining recognition and as vehicle
for them to publish their works
founded and published the Spinning
Wheel Magazine, which was discon-
tinued during the World War, but re-
vived for a time after she came to
Washington to live
Clubs and societies in which Mrs.
Coe was an officer or a prominent
member included the Colony Club of
New York, the American Womens
Association, the American War
Mothers, the New York City Colony
and the Abigail Adams Colony, both
OF the National Society of New Eng
land Women; the Women's Press
Club, the League Of Women Writers,
the League of American Pen Women,
the Eclectic, the American Coalition
Society, the Business and Professional
Women's Club of New York, the Ma
tional Society of Patriotic Women of
America, the Soroptimist Club and
the Shakesr care Society of Washing
ton.
Sons Served in War.
DR.. and Mrs. Goes three sons
kerved during the World War, two of
them, Henry. jr., who died last jan
uary, and Arthur Paul Coe, now an
attorney in the Treasury Department,
having been decorated with the Croix
de Guerre. The third son is Fordyce
Barker Coe of Hartford, Conn.
During the war Mrs. Coe devoted
her time to Liberty loan campaigns
and service organizations, to which
she contributed her fortune, includ-
ing the proceeds from the sale of her
large house in New York and her
country estate at Bayshore, Long Is
land.
Besides her husband and two sons
Mrs. Coe leaves three grandchildren
and a brother, John Werden, the
latter of Mobile, Ala.
Funeral services will be held at
e:45 am. tomorrow in the Episcopal
Church Of the Epiphany, with the
rector, Rev. DR.. Ze Barney T. Phillips,
officiating. Burial will be in Arling-
ton National Cemetery.