Retirement and Death
After retiring, Coontz wrote a memoir chronicling his early life growing up in Hannibal, Missouri and his Navy career, titled From the Mississippi to the Sea. A second book, True Ancedotes of an Admiral, was published in 1934. Admiral Coontz was briefly recalled to active duty in 1930 to investigate railroads in Alaska. Two years later in 1932 Coontz would represent Alaska at the Democratic National Convention. It was also in 1932 that he became Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. After suffering a series of heart attacks beginning in 1934, Admiral Robert E. Coontz died on 26 January 1935 at the Puget Sound Naval Hospital in Bremerton, Washington. Coontz is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in his native Hannibal, Missouri.
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