His obituary reads:
Harold Coats, Laboratory Draftsman
Harold Kenneth Coats, 50, a draftsman in the space division of The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, died Monday (4/1/1974) in the Columbia Medical Center in Columbia, Md., after a heart attack.
With the laboratory since 1967, Mr. Coats had helped prepare plans for satellites and their components as part of the maintenance and improvement of the Navy satellite navigating system.
Born in Cumberland, Md, he was a graduate of Columbia Technical Institute in Washington.
He worked for RCA from 1956 to 1963, serving in the range implementation section at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama and with the Operations Research Group at Cherry Hill, N.J., where he was assigned to the Minuteman Project.
Mr. Coats then spent several years as a design draftsman with Consultants and Designers in Arlington before joining the Applied Physics Laboratory.
He was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, No. 1540, in Rockville.
He is survived by his wife, Thelma F., of the home 1211 Simmons Dr., Rockville; his mother, Iva Coats, of Cumberland, and five brothers, Maxwell, of Germantown, Md.; Clarence and Lowell, of Urbana; Charles, of Damascus, and Robert of Rockville.
Contributor: Susan Parker (47678374) •
Harold Coats, Laboratory Draftsman
Harold Kenneth Coats, 50, a draftsman in the space division of The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, died Monday (4/1/1974) in the Columbia Medical Center in Columbia, Md., after a heart attack.
With the laboratory since 1967, Mr. Coats had helped prepare plans for satellites and their components as part of the maintenance and improvement of the Navy satellite navigating system.
Born in Cumberland, Md, he was a graduate of Columbia Technical Institute in Washington.
He worked for RCA from 1956 to 1963, serving in the range implementation section at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama and with the Operations Research Group at Cherry Hill, N.J., where he was assigned to the Minuteman Project.
Mr. Coats then spent several years as a design draftsman with Consultants and Designers in Arlington before joining the Applied Physics Laboratory.
He was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, No. 1540, in Rockville.
He is survived by his wife, Thelma F., of the home 1211 Simmons Dr., Rockville; his mother, Iva Coats, of Cumberland, and five brothers, Maxwell, of Germantown, Md.; Clarence and Lowell, of Urbana; Charles, of Damascus, and Robert of Rockville.
Contributor: Susan Parker (47678374) •
His obituary reads:
Harold Coats, Laboratory Draftsman
Harold Kenneth Coats, 50, a draftsman in the space division of The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, died Monday (4/1/1974) in the Columbia Medical Center in Columbia, Md., after a heart attack.
With the laboratory since 1967, Mr. Coats had helped prepare plans for satellites and their components as part of the maintenance and improvement of the Navy satellite navigating system.
Born in Cumberland, Md, he was a graduate of Columbia Technical Institute in Washington.
He worked for RCA from 1956 to 1963, serving in the range implementation section at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama and with the Operations Research Group at Cherry Hill, N.J., where he was assigned to the Minuteman Project.
Mr. Coats then spent several years as a design draftsman with Consultants and Designers in Arlington before joining the Applied Physics Laboratory.
He was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, No. 1540, in Rockville.
He is survived by his wife, Thelma F., of the home 1211 Simmons Dr., Rockville; his mother, Iva Coats, of Cumberland, and five brothers, Maxwell, of Germantown, Md.; Clarence and Lowell, of Urbana; Charles, of Damascus, and Robert of Rockville.
Contributor: Susan Parker (47678374) •
Harold Coats, Laboratory Draftsman
Harold Kenneth Coats, 50, a draftsman in the space division of The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, died Monday (4/1/1974) in the Columbia Medical Center in Columbia, Md., after a heart attack.
With the laboratory since 1967, Mr. Coats had helped prepare plans for satellites and their components as part of the maintenance and improvement of the Navy satellite navigating system.
Born in Cumberland, Md, he was a graduate of Columbia Technical Institute in Washington.
He worked for RCA from 1956 to 1963, serving in the range implementation section at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, at Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama and with the Operations Research Group at Cherry Hill, N.J., where he was assigned to the Minuteman Project.
Mr. Coats then spent several years as a design draftsman with Consultants and Designers in Arlington before joining the Applied Physics Laboratory.
He was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, No. 1540, in Rockville.
He is survived by his wife, Thelma F., of the home 1211 Simmons Dr., Rockville; his mother, Iva Coats, of Cumberland, and five brothers, Maxwell, of Germantown, Md.; Clarence and Lowell, of Urbana; Charles, of Damascus, and Robert of Rockville.
Contributor: Susan Parker (47678374) •
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