Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Jesse Pennock COATES
Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA) - December 22, 1994
Deceased Name: Joint services planned for Jesse Coates Sr., wife
The former chairman of the chemical engineering department at LSU, Dr. Jesse Coates Sr., died Wednesday of pneumonia.
His wife, Judith Mills Williams Coates, died Monday.
Their son, Jesse Coates Jr., said joint services will be held and his parents will be buried together.
"What could be better than going to heaven together," he said.
Jesse Coates Sr. and his wife were longtime members of St. James Episcopal Church. Visiting will be held there at 10:30 a.m. today, followed by religious services at noon and burial in Roselawn Memorial Park.
Jesse Coates Sr. was 86 and his wife was 80.
Jesse Coates Jr. said his father had a leg amputated during surgery Thursday and was recovering well when he contracted pneumonia.
He said his mother died suddenly Monday and the precise cause of her death had not been determined.
Jesse Coates Sr. earned a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering at LSU in 1928 before leaving to pursue advanced degrees and jobs with private companies.
He returned in 1936 to join the LSU faculty as an assistant professor. He rose to department head and department chairman before retiring in 1973 as an alumni professor emeritus.
A member of the LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction, Coates was a member of several honorary and professional societies and he received numerous awards.
They included the Distinguished Service Award from the National Council of Engineering Examiners, the Westinghouse Electric Award for Excellence in Teaching and being named Chemical Engineering Magazine's Man of the Year.
He even has an award named after him. The Jesse Coates Award in Chemical Engineering was established by friends and former students in his honor at LSU in 1973.
Jesse Coates Sr. was a charter member and chairman of the Baton Rouge Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
He is the son of Charles E. Coates, for whom LSU's Coates Hall is named.
Died Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1994, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. He was 86, a native and life-long resident of Baton Rouge. He was a retired professor and head of the Dept. of LSU Chemical Engineering. Visiting at St. James Episcopal Church, 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Joint services for Dr. Coates and his wife Judith will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, noon, Thursday, conducted by the Rev. Fred Fenton, Rev. George Kontos and Rev. Bob Burton. Interment in Roselawn MemorialPark. Survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Judith Coates Dorfi and Ernst Gustav Dorfi; a son and daughter-in-law, Jesse Coates Jr. and Ferrill Ann Lott Coates; a sister and brother-in-law, Caroline Coates Spiller and E.B. Spiller, Kentwood, Calif.; five grandchildren, Jan Coates Hunsaker, Amy Anderson Coates, Anna Katherine Coates, Jesse Hunter Coates, and Kristin Dorfi Laquerre; and a great-grandson, Sam Wiley Hunsaker. Preceded in death by wife, Judith Mills Williams Coates; two brothers, Victor M.and Charles H. Coates; and a son, Victor M. Coates. Pallbearers will be Ross Munson, Ernst Dorfi, Jesse Hunter Coates, Charles Hunter Coates, Charles Hunter Coates III, and Wilmer Mills. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan and LSU, member ofSt. James Episcopal Church, American Chemical Society, the LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction, Louisiana Engineering Society, National Council of Engineering Examiners, American Society of Engineering Education, Louisiana State Board for Registration of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
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