Rest In Peace Coach Charlie Moot and Ann Richards
Charles R. "Coach" Moot
August 26, 1944 ~ September 09, 2006
From: Lewis Center, Ohio
Visitation: Saturday, September 16, 2006 from 5:00-0:00 P.M.
Funeral: Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 4:00 P.M.
Burial: Corwin
Charles R. “Coach” Moot, age 62 of Fort Worth, TX finished his fight against ALS on Saturday, September 9, 2006 with his family by his side.
A longtime resident of Texas and Oklahoma he was an educator as well as a football coach, having coached at both the high school and collegiate levels. Beginning at high school in Cohoes, NY and several schools in Oklahoma, his collegiate career included Northwestern Oklahoma State University before moving on to Texas and UTEP, Sam Houston State, and Howard Payne Universities.
His love of youth and commitment to enriching their lives on and off the football field, lead him to Southwestern Texas High School in Ft. Worth, from which he retired in 2005.
Born on August 26, 1944 in Lockport, NY to the late Peter and June (Church) Moot. He was a graduate of Wilson High School in 1963 and Ithaca College where he played football. He also served in the US Marine Corps during the Vietnam Conflict.
Charlie loved people, and held a passion for football and building character through its coaching. Because of his strong faith and unconditional acceptance and compassion for others he was an inspiration to everyone he knew.
He leaves a tremendous legacy and is survived by siblings: Priscilla Moot of Lewis Center with whom he resided during his illness, Peter (Zada) Moot of Holland Patent, NY, Lucy (Tim) Kraatz of Union, KY, Step-siblings: Cheryl (Dan) Kammon of Kenmore, NY, Rick (Cyndi) Farnham of Las Vegas, NV, Gary (Darlene) Farnham of Ransomville, NY, Bruce Farnham of Cheektowaga, NY , Nieces, Nephews, Great-nieces and nephews, students, and players.
Also preceded in death by step-mother of 26 years: Betty.
Memorial services will be held 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006 at Wedgwood Baptist Church, 5522 Whitman Ave., Ft. Worth, TX with Brother Al Meredith officiating.
Local arrangements entrusted to DeVore-Snyder Funeral Home in Delaware.
An additional memorial service will be held 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 23, 2006 at the St. John’s Episcopal Church in Wilson, New York. Inurment will follow in the Corwin Cemetery in Newfane, New York.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions can be made to ALS for Research, 1810 MacKenzie Dr., Suite 120, Columbus, OH 43220.
Condolences may be expressed at www.snyderfuneralhomes.com
source: http://www.snyderfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/obit_view.phtml?id=5216
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Ann Richards
"the steel magnolia of Texas," Ross Perot 1994
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Sept. 14, 2006, 8:40AM
Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards dies
By KELLEY SHANNON Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.
She died at home surrounded by her family, the spokeswoman said. Richards was found to have esophageal cancer in March and underwent chemotherapy treatments.
The silver-haired, silver-tongued Richards said she entered politics to help others _ especially women and minorities who were often ignored by Texas' male-dominated establishment.
"I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone,'" Richards said shortly before leaving office in January 1995.
Whether or not she succeeded at that, there was no question she cracked open the door.
Her single term as governor had ended in a 1994 defeat to George W. Bush, who went from besting his father's silver-haired critic to the governor's office to the presidency.
"Texas has lost one of its great daughters," President Bush said in statement after learning of Richards' death.
Two years before she was elected governor of Texas, Ann Richards electrified the 1988 Democratic National Convention with a keynote speech in which she joked that the Republican presidential nominee, George H.W. Bush, had been "born with a silver foot in his mouth."
A longtime champion of women and minorities in government who was serving at the time as Texas state treasurer, she won cheers when she reminded delegates that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, "only backwards and in high heels."
As governor, Richards appointed the first black University of Texas regent, the first crime victim on the state Criminal Justice Board, the first disabled person on the human services board and the first teacher to lead the State Board of Education. Under Richards, the fabled Texas Rangers pinned stars on their first black and female officers.
Ron Kirk, the black former mayor of Dallas, said Richards helped him get his first political internship during a state constitutional convention in 1974 and later, as governor, made him secretary of state.
"She set the table so somebody like me could become mayor of Dallas," Kirk said.
She also polished Texas' image, courted movie producers, campaigned for the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico, oversaw a doubling of the state prison system and presided over rising student achievement scores and plunging dropout rates.
Throughout her years in office, her popularity remained high. One poll put it at over 60 percent the year she lost her re-election bid to Bush.
Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry described Richards as "the epitome of Texas politics: a figure larger than life who had a gift for captivating the public with her great wit."
"Ann loved Texas, and Texans loved her," President Bush said. "As a public servant, she earned respect and admiration. Ann became a national role model, and her charm, wit and candor brought a refreshing vitality to public life."
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said Richards never lost her zest for life.
"I wrote her a note when I heard about her cancer and she wrote me back a wonderful letter. She was upbeat and positive and I think she was going to go out with guns blazing," Hutchison said Wednesday night.
Richards was diagnosed with cancer in March and underwent chemotherapy treatments.
Her four adult children spent the day with her before she died Wednesday night at her home in Austin, said Cathy Bonner, a longtime family friend and family spokeswoman.
Born in Lakeview, Texas, in 1933, Richards grew up near Waco, married civil rights lawyer David Richards and spent her early adulthood volunteering in campaigns and raising four children. She often said the hardest job she ever had was as a public school teacher at Fulmore Junior High School in Austin.
In the early 1960s, she helped form the North Dallas Democratic Women, "basically to allow us to have something substantive to do; the regular Democratic Party and its organization was run by men who looked on women as little more than machine parts."
Richards served on the Travis County Commissioners Court in Austin for six years before jumping to a bigger arena in 1982 when her election as state treasurer made her the first woman elected statewide in nearly 50 years.
But politics took a toll. It cost her a marriage and forced her in 1980 to seek treatment for alcoholism.
"I had seen the very bottom of life," she once recalled. "I was so afraid I wouldn't be funny anymore. I just knew that I would lose my zaniness and my sense of humor. But I didn't. Recovery turned out to be a wonderful thing."
After her re-election defeat, Richards went on to give speeches, work as a commentator for Cable News Network and serve as a senior adviser in the New York office of Public Strategies.
In her last 10 years, Richards worked for many social causes and helped develop the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, scheduled to open in Austin in 2007.
Richards said she never missed being in public office. She grinned when asked what she might have done differently had she known she would be a one-term governor.
"Oh," she said, "I would probably have raised more hell."
source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4186314.html
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The "Steel Magnolia" in her own words
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