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There were thirteen speakers, including oldest daughter Stephanie McBride who represented the family.<ref name=memorialservice>{{cite web|url=https://archive.is/20140308150452/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140307/NEWS01/303070048/Shows-celebration-draws-tears-cheers|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows celebration draws tears and cheers: Thousands turn out to honor a legend|date=March 7, 2014|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=December 26, 2019}}</ref>

There were thirteen speakers, including oldest daughter Stephanie McBride who represented the family.<ref name=memorialservice>{{cite web|url=https://archive.is/20140308150452/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140307/NEWS01/303070048/Shows-celebration-draws-tears-cheers|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows celebration draws tears and cheers: Thousands turn out to honor a legend|date=March 7, 2014|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=December 26, 2019}}</ref>

<ref>"=Legendary West Monroe High School football coach Don Shows dies, ''The Shreveport Times,'' March

<ref>"Legendary West Monroe High School football coach Don Shows dies," ''The Shreveport Times,'' March

6, 2014.</ref> The Shows service drew a worldwide audience of 13,054 in preliminary numbers from a live [[Internet]] stream at the high school website, gorebs.org<ref name=blueprint>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140309/SPORTS/303090026/Shows-leaves-behind-blueprint-Rebel-success|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140310100121/|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows leaves behind blueprint for Rebel success|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=December 26, 2019|archivedate=March 10, 2014}}</ref>

6, 2014.</ref> The Shows service drew a worldwide audience of 13,054 in preliminary numbers from a live [[Internet]] stream at the high school website, gorebs.org<ref name=blueprint>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20140309/SPORTS/303090026/Shows-leaves-behind-blueprint-Rebel-success|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140310100121/|author=Tabby Soignier|title=Shows leaves behind blueprint for Rebel success|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=December 26, 2019|archivedate=March 10, 2014}}</ref>

[[Greg Hilburn]], staff writer for ''The Monroe News-Star,'' recalled that Shows "took over a moribund West Monroe football program in 1989. The school had been to the playoffs only twice in forty years before his arrival as head coach."<ref name=mns/> In a previous interview with ''The News-Star'', Shows said that upon his arrival the West Monroe program was "at a point in time where it was going to fold up ... or it was going to turn around. Personally, I don't think anybody really cared one way or the other, because they didn't think you could win here."<ref name=mns/>

[[Greg Hilburn]], staff writer for ''The Monroe News-Star,'' recalled that Shows "took over a moribund West Monroe football program in 1989. The school had been to the playoffs only twice in forty years before his arrival as head coach."<ref name=mns/> In a previous interview with ''The News-Star,'' Shows said that upon his arrival the West Monroe program was "at a point in time where it was going to fold up ... or it was going to turn around. Personally, I don't think anybody really cared one way or the other, because they didn't think you could win here."<ref name=mns/>

Mayor Dave Norris noted that the West Monroe High School football program "lagged until Don came along. And the success of the football program has clearly bled into other segments of our city. It's a point of pride in our city and a reason for us to come together ..."<ref name=mns/>

Mayor Dave Norris noted that the West Monroe High School football program "lagged until Don came along. And the success of the football program has clearly bled into other segments of our city. It's a point of pride in our city and a reason for us to come together ..."<ref name=mns/>