Thousands at Iowa football coach funeral (AP)

Courtesy Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Mon, 06/29/2009 - 13:32

Thousands of mourners gathered Monday to remember a slain high school football coach as a man of faith who believed in leading by example.

Family, friends and former players packed into a church, community center and parking lot for the funeral for Ed Thomas, the 58-year-old longtime coach at Aplington-Parkersburg High School who was gunned down Wednesday in the school weight room.


 

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