Jimmy Childress
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Childress bids farewell at his 2001 induction into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
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| Born |
Jimmy Ray "Chick Childress March 29, 1932 Ruston, Lincoln Parish Louisiana, USA |
| Died | July 12, 2015 (aged 83) Ruston, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Sibley Cemetery in Lincoln Parish |
| Residence | Choudrant in Lincoln Parish |
| Alma mater |
Ruston High School |
| Occupation |
Champion football coach |
| Spouse(s) | Christine O'Neal Childress |
| Children |
Cynthia Alline Childress Bohrer |
| Parent(s) |
Albert Jesse Cobb (stepfather) |
Ruston High School
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Champion football coach
Neville High School (1958-1973
University of Louisiana at Monroe (1974-1976)
Cynthia Alline Childress Bohrer
Daniel Lloyd Childress
Albert Jesse Cobb (stepfather)
Jimmy Ray Childress, known also as Chick Childress (March 29, 1932 – July 12, 2015), was an eight-time Louisiana state champion high school football coach who in 2001 was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in .
Orphaned, Childress was reared in the Louisiana Methodist Children's Home in his native Ruston in Lincoln Parish in North Louisiana, His mother, Edith Zell Childress Cobb (1915-2014) was married c. 1940 until his death to Albert Jesse Cobb (1907-2002). The Cobbs, who lived in West Monroe, are interred at Mulhearn Memorial Park in Monroe, Louisiana. Childress had a step-sister from Albert Cobb's first marriage, Mary Catherine Schim and husband, Dan, of Coconut Creek, Florida.
Childress and his wife, the former Christine O'Neal (born September 1932), have two children, Cynthia Alline Childress Bohrer and husband, Philip, of Baton Rouge and Daniel Lloyd Childress and his wife, the former Maribel Tuten, of Bella Vista in Benton County in northwestern Arkansas. The Childresses lost an infant daughter, Katherine Bernice Childress.
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