The Florida gym teacher named Ken unwittingly Legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd on Giving Detention to a pack of long-haired Slackers, has at last.
Leonard Skinner, the basketball coach and gym teacher Ken later Became friends with the band, at last Monday in the Florida, his daughter said. They was 77
Skinner at his sleep at last in at the St. Catherine Labour Manor in Jacksonville, M they had Been living for about a year, his daughter Susie Moore said. Skinner had Alzheimer's disease.
"Coach Skinner had such" a profound impact on our youth That ultimately led us Thurs naming the band, you know wakes up as Lynyrd Skynyrd, on him, "said band member Gary Rossington. "Looking back, I Can not Imagine it Any Other Way. Our thoughts and Prayers are with His family at this time."
Skinner was working at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville in the late 1960s "when they sent a group of students to the principal's office.
"It was against the School Rules," Skinner Told the Florida Times-Union in 2009. "Particularly, I do not like long hair are men, but their again, it wasn't my rule."
The kids went on to form the band about responsible for such "hits as" Sweet Home Alabama "and" Free Bird. " Three of the band members, Including lead singer by Ronnie Van Zant, were killed in a plane crash in 1977, but their the survivors still tour and record.
Skinner whose son was a fan of the band, Eventually made friends with the Rockers, Ken Even Performed at a Jacksonville bar owned the former coach.
Said Skinner's children Their father was never comfortable with Completely Being linked to the band vain did grow Thurs Embrace it.
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