| − | After his coaching ended, Germany resided in Ruston, where he was employed by Kadav, Inc., a crop planting and protection firm. He and his wife, the former Nelda Sue Barnett (born May 1943), have two sons and two daughters. Their older son, Raymond, Jr. (born April 1963), practices [[urology]] in Shreveport. Kent Barnett Germany (born c. 1971) is an historian at the [[University of South Carolina]] in the capital city of [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]], [[South Carolina]], who specializes in [[African-American]] studies and is the author of ''New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society,'' a 2007 publication of the University of Georgia Press.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/520699.New_Orleans_after_the_Promises|title=New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society|author=Kent B. Germany|publisher=University of Georgia Press|date=2007|accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?kentgermany|title=Kent B. Germany|publisher=[[C-SPAN]]|date=July 8, 2015|accessdate=September 29, 2021}}</ref> The Germany daughters are Lovie Dee Hunt of Haughton and Robbie Elizabeth "Beth" Burns of Hendersonville, [[Tennessee]]. | + | After his coaching ended, Germany resided in Ruston, where he was employed by Kadav, Inc., a crop planting and protection firm. He and his wife, the former Nelda Sue Barnett (born May 1943), have two sons and two daughters. Their older son, Raymond, Jr. (born April 1963), practices [[urology]] in Shreveport. Kent Barnett Germany (born c. 1971) is an historian at the [[University of South Carolina]] in the capital city of [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]], [[South Carolina]], who specializes in [[African-American]] studies and is the author of ''New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society,'' a 2007 publication of the [[University of Georgia]] Press.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/520699.New_Orleans_after_the_Promises|title=New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society|author=Kent B. Germany|publisher=University of Georgia Press|date=2007|accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?kentgermany|title=Kent B. Germany|publisher=[[C-SPAN]]|date=July 8, 2015|accessdate=September 29, 2021}}</ref> The Germany daughters are Lovie Dee Hunt of Haughton and Robbie Elizabeth "Beth" Burns of Hendersonville, [[Tennessee]]. |
| | Germany died of [[prostate cancer]] at his Haughton home at the age of eighty-five. In his last week of his life, he said, “that’s the legacy—how your family is.”<ref name=obit/> | | Germany died of [[prostate cancer]] at his Haughton home at the age of eighty-five. In his last week of his life, he said, “that’s the legacy—how your family is.”<ref name=obit/> |