Edward H. Coale ’42

Ed died peacefully Jan. 2, 2018, in Mamaroneck, N.Y. He was born Sept. 1, 1920, in Upper Montclair N.J., to Mary Carroll Hodge and Sidney Thompson Coale. He graduated from Montclair High School. He was devoted to Princeton, was class secretary for many years, and organized class reunions that he attended until he was unable to travel.

Ed entered the Navy shortly after college graduation and served in the South Pacific during World War II. Following the war he moved to New York City and began a distinguished career as a frozen-food executive. He started his own business, Readi-Bake International, in 1970 and soon thereafter moved his family to Grand Rapids, Mich., where they enjoyed the Great Lakes. In the late 1970s the family discovered Gasparilla Island in Florida, where they built a house that they wintered in and pursued their golf and tennis games.

Ed was deeply engaged in the communities in which he lived. He was an elder at the Reformed Church in Bronxville, served on the board of directors of Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, and co-founded the Lemon Bay Golf Club in Englewood, Fla. He was also president of the American Frozen Food Institute.

Ed is survived by two daughters and one son.