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Subject: Obit - John R. Black - Arizona
Date: 5 Oct 2004 12:13:39 -0600

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John R. Black, November 5, 1919 - August 28, 2004. University of Arizona Hall of Famer, John Black, died August 28, 2004 at 84. Born in Douglas, AZ and raised in Clifton and Tucson. John was the son of Bon and Alice Black. He was married to Shirley Schaefer for 41 years and had 3 children. Shirley passed away in 1982.

John graduated from Tucson High School in 1937 and the U of A in 1942. He received his Masters in Education in 1950 from ASU. At the U of A John lettered 3 years in football 1938, 1939 and 1940. He was first team All Border Conference in 1939 and 1940 and was Captain of the team in 1940 as Quarterback and Defensive Back. John also lettered 3 years in basketball as starting Guard. John was inducted into the U of A Sports Hall of Fame for Football and Basketball in 1979.

In 1942, John entered the Navy as Ensign and attended the US Navel Academy and was assigned to service at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station and then to an aircraft carrier in the Pacific 1942-1946. John saw action in the Lingayen Gulf Invasion and was hit by a suicide bomber. Was in Okinawa and then Tokyo Bay when the peace treaty was signed. John was discharged in January 1946 as Lt. Senior Grade.

After the war, he became an Asst. Football and Basketball Coach at the U of A from 1946-1947. He was hired as Head Football Coach at Phx. Union High School from 1947-1951 where he won the State Football Championship and was elected Football Coach of the Year.

John was in the cattle and farming business in Linneus, MO 1951-1955 and became the General Agent of State Mutual Life Insurance Co. of America from 1955-1982 in Phx. John retired in 1982.

John was inducted into the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 for his contribution to high school and U of A sports and elected to Tucson High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.

John is survived by his wife Mary of 22 years, daughters Joanne Barthels, Carolyn Hudak, and son John Jr., sister Mary Nell Yaeger, stepdaughters Cheryl Jones, Pamela Roberts, Valerie Crobbe and Kelly Simpson, 12 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.

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