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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005
Pat Summitt's Father Dies at 83
ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Richard Head, father of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, died at 83.
Head died Sunday at his home in Henrietta, the Boyd Funeral Home said. Friends of the family said he had been ill for about a year.
Summitt missed practice in Knoxville on Monday to be with her family. She often credited her father, a tobacco and dairy farmer, with instilling in his three sons and two daughters a strong work ethic and sense of discipline.
Head put up a basket on the family farm's hayloft so his
children could play basketball after finishing chores. Later, he
moved the family to a neighboring county so his daughter could enroll at a high school that had a girls' basketball team.
Besides his children, Head is survived by his wife, Hazel, and
brothers Conroy and Hughes.
The funeral is scheduled for Wednesday at Mount Carmel United Methodist Church.
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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005
Pat Summitt's Father Dies at 83
ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) - Richard Head, father of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, died at 83.
Head died Sunday at his home in Henrietta, the Boyd Funeral Home said. Friends of the family said he had been ill for about a year.
Summitt missed practice in Knoxville on Monday to be with her family. She often credited her father, a tobacco and dairy farmer, with instilling in his three sons and two daughters a strong work ethic and sense of discipline.
Head put up a basket on the family farm's hayloft so his
children could play basketball after finishing chores. Later, he
moved the family to a neighboring county so his daughter could enroll at a high school that had a girls' basketball team.
Besides his children, Head is survived by his wife, Hazel, and
brothers Conroy and Hughes.
The funeral is scheduled for Wednesday at Mount Carmel United Methodist Church.
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