Block, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, move, protect, rollback
57,799
edits
Changes
→Background
Coon was born in Marshall, a small city in Harrison county in east [[Texas]], to Loyd Wesley Coon (1912-1998) and the former Ida Mae Sparks (1916-1994). The senior Coon was a native of Brookhaven, [[Mississippi]], but had moved to Marshall with his family when he was a youngster. Loyd Coon was a farmer and dairyman. The family moved to Calhoun, a community west of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], [[Louisiana]]. Coon was among the thirty-one 1954 graduates of West Ouachita (then Calhoun High School). After high school, he served for five years in the [[United States Air Force]], with overseas duty on the [[Greece|Greek]] island of [[Crete]].
Coon was born in Marshall, a small city in Harrison county in east [[Texas]], to Loyd Wesley Coon (1912-1998) and the former Ida Mae Sparks (1916-1994). The senior Coon was a native of Brookhaven, [[Mississippi]], but had moved to Marshall with his family when he was a youngster. Loyd Coon was a farmer and dairyman. The family moved to Calhoun, a community west of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], [[Louisiana]]. Coon was among the thirty-one 1954 graduates of West Ouachita (then Calhoun High School). After high school, he served for five years in the [[United States Air Force]], with overseas duty on the [[Greece|Greek]] island of [[Crete]].
In 1956, Coon married the former Sue Lynn Thompson (born 1938), also of Calhoun. They have two children, Catherine Lynn Coon (born 1957) of El Dorado in Union County in southern Arkansas and Kenneth Coon, Jr. (born 1962). Coon attended [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], at which he obtained a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in [[biology]]. In 1962, he entered the master's program in fisheries at Utah State University in Logan, [[Utah]], and received his degree three years later.
In 1956, Coon married the former Sue Lynn Thompson (born 1938), also of Calhoun. They have two children, Catherine Lynn Coon (born 1957) of El Dorado in Union County in southern Arkansas and Kenneth Coon, Jr. (born 1962). Coon attended [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], at which he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in [[biology]]. In 1962, he entered the master's program in fisheries at Utah State University in Logan, [[Utah]], and received his degree three years later.
==Jaycees state president==
==Jaycees state president==