David Allan Coe's Daughter Says She Was Not Told About His Death and Not 'Given the Opportunity' to See Him Before He Died
David Allan Coe's Daughter Says She Was Not Told About His Death and Not 'Given the Opportunity' to See Him Before He Died
Staff AuthorThu, April 30, 2026 at 10:58 PM UTC
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David Allen Coe; Tanya Montana CoeCredit: Gary Miller/Getty; Tanya Montana/Instagram -
David Allan Coe’s daughter Tanya says she was not informed of his death or given a chance to say goodbye
Tanya and her brother Tyler have spoken about their estranged relationships with their father
David Allan Coe died on April 29 at age 86
David Allan Coe’s estranged children are speaking out in the wake of his death, with his daughter Tanya alleging that she was not given the chance to see the country star before he died.
Tanya Montana Coe shared a post to social media on Thursday, April 30 lamenting the way she’d learned her father had died, and asking for information about his funeral.
“Waking up to the news that your dad has died and not being given the opportunity to see him one last time is a hell I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy,” she wrote. “If anyone finds out about any funeral arrangements, please let me know as I would like to be at my dad’s funeral.”
In a comment on the post, Tanya, 39, noted that she has “not heard anything” from her stepmother Kimberly, who married David in 2010, in the wake of his April 29 death at age 86.
She also shared a collection of throwback photos to Facebook, writing, "Thank you for the outpouring of love and condolences. I couldn’t have loved my dad more and i never gave up on him ❤️🩹."
The status of the “Take This Job and Shove It” songwriter's relationship with Tanya at the time of his death remains unclear, though she wrote in a 2025 Facebook comment that their estrangement was “truly a horrific pain and has been for some time now.”
“I will never give up on him,” she wrote. “When I was little, he used to tell me ‘blood is blood, family is forever’ and I took that to heart.”
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Meanwhile, Tanya’s brother Tyler Mahan Coe posted a video about their father’s death, describing the country star as a “difficult person to be close with” and “a difficult person to care about.”
“Nobody who ever knew him would disagree with that statement, but I did always care about him, even after it became clear that he and I were never going to speak to each other again,” Tyler said. “I never wanted anything bad to happen to him. I do hate the choices he made for how to spend the final decade or so of his life, but I didn’t hate him, and those were his choices to make.”
David Allan Coe in New York City in June 2010.Credit: Ben Hider/Getty
Tyler previously told GQ in 2021 that he and his father had not spoken since 2013, when David abruptly fired Tyler as his band leader.
David was injured in a car accident in Florida in March 2013, and allegedly told Tyler while recovering that he planned on playing a few solo shows before getting their band back together. Then, in July, David appeared on stage with an entirely new band. Tyler told GQ he believes his firing came at the behest of his stepmother Kimberly.
“It wasn’t a relationship that was ever there. It hurt, but it’s not a new hurt,” Tyler told the outlet. “I could probably count on one hand the number of times that my father has said useful things to me.”
David shared Tanya, Tyler and their siblings Shyanne and Carson with his ex-wife Jody Lynn Coe. He also had a daughter named Shelli, and Tanya revealed on Instagram in September that she recently discovered her dad also welcomed a son just four months after she was born.
Shelli shared Tyler’s video to her Facebook page in the wake of David’s death, writing that she “agree[s] with a lot of what he has to say here.”
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