Jerry L. “Coach” Seigel, 75, of Warrensburg, died Saturday, March 5, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City.

The family will receive friends from 12:30 p.m. until service time Thursday, March 10, at Sweeney-Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home with Dr. Randall Neal officiating. Interment will follow in Warrensburg Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Tom Mullins, Briant Hunt, Chad Kosmiski, Luke Seigel, Cooper Lee and Jim Gill.

Jerry was born Feb. 8, 1941, in Vinita, Oklahoma, the son of Leslie and Anna (Barker) Seigel, their youngest son of 10 children.

A 1960 graduate of Vinita High School, Jerry was a standout athlete and played football, baseball and basketball.

Jerry attended and played football at Northeastern A&M Jr. College in Miami, Oklahoma, Fort Scott Jr. College in Kansas, and then for the Northeastern State College Redmen, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

In March of 1964, he and Sharon Bogle were married in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and were married for more than 50 years. They resided in Tulsa and Collinsville in Oklahoma before moving to Warrensburg in 1971. Continuing his passion for sports and education, Jerry taught and coached football in Tulsa and Collinsville for six years. After moving to Missouri, he coached track and football at Knob Noster for 24 years, including defensive coach for the 1984 Missouri Class 2A state champions.

Known as “Coach” to countless friends and former students, Jerry was also a member of the Cherokee and Delaware Indian Tribes, an avid outdoorsman and a tremendous supporter and member of the Warrensburg Elks Lodge where he was the Elk of the Year in 2006.

Jerry is survived by his wife, Sharon, of the home; two sons, Doug Seigel and wife, Jacquetta, of Warrensburg, and David Seigel and wife, Stephanie, of Leavenworth, Kansas; a daughter, Carrie Lee and husband, Jason, of Leawood, Kansas; eight grandchildren, David’s children, Laura, Katie, Luke, Daniel, and Joey, Carrie’s children, Cooper and Cassidy, and Doug’s daughter, Jaylena.

He was preceded in death by his parents and nine brothers and sisters, Sonny, Buck, Gene, Helen, Ruby, Betty, Shirley, Colleen and Jimi Lou.

Memorial contributions are suggested to the Show-Me Christian Youth Home or the charity of choice and can be left in care of the funeral home.