Grambling State/Natchitoches fixture J.D. Garrett dies at 74

J.D. GARRETT
(1964 AFL BOSTON PATRIOTS PHOTO)

NATCHITOCHES, Louisiana -- J.D. Garrett, a former Grambling State football All-American, longtime high school coach and fixture in the Natchitoches community, died Wednesday night.

A press release from the City of Natchitoches confirmed Garrett, 74, died while at the city pool where he had worked since he was a teenager. The Natchitoches Parish Coroner's Office determined the death to be of natural causes.

Garrett was a football, basketball and track star at Central High School in Natchitoches. He went on to be a standout running back at Grambling and played five seasons for the Boston Patriots of the American Football League.

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