Taken from West Chester Daily Local News - online obits Ethel Johnson Coates, 84, of Oxford, died on Thursday, April 14, 2005, at the Union Hospital, Elkton, Md. She was the wife of the late Joseph H. Coates. She was born in Oxford, daughter of the late Harry and Ethel Miller Johnson. She was a lifelong resident of Oxford. She was a member of the Oxford Religious Society of Friends, where she was active in the quilting group. She was active in the Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts. She is survived by her four sons, Joseph H. Coates of Thurmont, Md., Gary V. Coates, Eric S. Coates, and Daniel T. Coates, all of Oxford; one daughter, Betty Bond of Thurmont, Md.; 18 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Dorothy Smith of New Castle, Del., and Margaret Boynton of Nashua, N.H. She was preceded in death by a son, David S. Coates; a daughter, Susan C. Brown; and two grandsons, Brian M. Coates and Raymond Bond. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, April 18, at the Eastland Friends Meeting House, Kirks Mill and Friends Roads, Nottingham. Interment will be in the Eastland Friends Meeting Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her memory to the American Cancer Society, 1615 West Chester Pike, Suite 102, West Chester, PA 19382. Arrangements are being handled by the Edward L. Collins Funeral Home Inc. Oxford. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Judith Walter Heald jheald@pennswoods.net Spring Mills, PA 16875 Our roots include: Lots of Quakers from 1600's to present. . . Surnames: Barnard, Dickson, Ely, Heald, Hilaman, Hoopes, Kirk, Kline, Lippincott, Marshall, Mercer, Moore, Ogden, Paxson, Plankinton, Pownall, Pusey, Pyle, Rodgers, Sellers, Sharpless, Swayne, Taylor, Thompson, Walter, Watson, Way, Webb, Wickersham. . . PA Counties, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Bucks, Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson, Elk, . . .