Douglas Henry Coe
Douglas Henry Coe, 73, of Berkeley, California, passed away peacefully on March 17, 2023.
Douglas was born on December 24, 1949 to George Turner Coe and Lillie Ruth Coe in
Baltimore, Maryland. After graduation from Lansdowne Senior High School in 1967, Douglas
received his Bachelor of Science degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1971.
Upon graduation from college, Douglas worked for several years at the Social Security
Administration in Baltimore, Maryland processing social security claims and making benefits
determinations. In 1975, Douglas moved to Berkeley, California and worked for a note-taking
service for students at the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, Douglas was employed by the Berkeley Review, and its predecessor small businesses until 2020 teaching preparatory courses for undergraduate, graduate, and medical school applications and for examinations and editing publications for uses by academic institutions.
Douglas possessed a love of languages and differing cultures, was multilingual, and
easily learned new languages. He was a wonderful storyteller and could provide an accurate
impersonation of celebrities or fictional characters, often to the entertainment of his nephews and nieces. He maintained close ties to his immediate family and visited them in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. area for approximately a month every year around the Christmas holiday.
Douglas had a strong sense of social justice and generously gave of his time and talents
accordingly, such as volunteering in a literacy program to teach prisoners to read. Douglas had a lifelong fascination with astrology and spent many years studying the subject.
Douglas was predeceased by his parents George and Ruth Coe who passed in 2017 and will be greatly missed by his siblings Susan Schweinhart, Anthony Carlton Coe, and Gwendolyn Ruth Murray and his nieces and nephews, Melissa Conner, Brooks Coe, Rebecca Coe, and Benjamin Coe.
A memorial service will be held in the Baltimore, Maryland area on a future date yet to be chosen by family.
