Death and Legacy
When Coe died unexpectedly of an asthma attack at his new home in Palm Beach, Florida on March 15, 1955, he was buried at Locust Valley on Long Island.
Two years after his death, in 1957, the Virginian Railway named its new tugboat W. R. Coe in his memory. After the VGN merger with the Norfolk and Western in 1959, it was renamed R.B. Claytor (for the N&W leader, Robert B. Claytor). As of 2003, the tugboat was serving the harbor of Boston as the Karen B. Tibbetts.
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