Ward Baldwin Coe Jr. ’36

Ward died Nov. 12, 1996, of a heart attack at his home in Ruxton, Md. He was 83. A graduate of the Gilman School in Baltimore, at Princeton he majored in architecture and was a member of Tower Club. In 1939 he received his law degree from Harvard. He was a partner of the Baltimore law firm of Anderson, Coe and King and predecessors. He was an assistant attorney general of Maryland (1949-52), was on the board of law examiners of Maryland (1963-72), and on the board of directors of the Maryland Bar Foundation (1979-84).

During WWII, Ward served four years in the Navy in the ranks from ensign to lt. commander, seeing action as a captain and section leader of a motor torpedo boat in Panama and the Solomon Islands. He then was a gunnery officer and assistant navigator aboard the USS Biloxi in the central Pacific theater. He was awarded four battle stars.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years, the former Diana Chittenden, three sons, Henry C., Michael F., and Ward B. III '67, a daughter, Dina W., a sister, Mrs. James C. Neilson, and three grandchildren. Ward will be missed by his many friends in the class.

The Class of 1936