Frederick T. Coleman

Frederick T. Coleman Jr., 88, of Linda Lane, Spring Township, died May 10 at 10:55 p.m. in Reading Hospital, where he had been a patient six days.

He was the husband of Patricia A. (Hertzog) Coleman. His first wife, Vivian F. (LaValle) Coleman, died Oct. 4, 1965.

Born in Watertown, Mass., he was a son of the late Frederick T. Coleman Sr. and Mary C. (Slamin) Coleman.

Coleman was employed as a store designer by Kennedy's Department Store, Boston, and was last employed for 25 years as a senior store planner by Allied Stores of Bucks County, retiring in 1972.

Following his retirement, he founded Fred T. Coleman Displays, Wyomissing, which he operated from 1972 to1997.

Coleman was a member of St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church, Whitfield.

He was a Navy veteran of World War II.

Coleman was a life member of the International Store Planners.

He was a graduate of Watertown High School and a 1939 graduate of the Practical Arts of Boston.

Coleman was one of the first figure skaters with the Ice Capades in Boston in 1944.

He is also survived by two daughters, Elizabeth C. (Coleman) Burwell, North Attleboro, Mass., and Kathleen V. (Coleman) Parrish, Princeton, N.J.; and a stepson, John S. Piehl, Reading.

Other survivors include a brother, Harold, in Nevada; and a sister, Esther (Coleman) Thesis, Exeter, N.H.

There are also three grandchildren.

He was predeceased by a son, Frederick T. Coleman III, on July 21.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday at 11 a.m. in St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Burial will be in Gethsemane Cemetery, Laureldale. Edward J. Kuhn Funeral Home Inc., West Reading, is in charge of arrangements.