Local Memorial Service Set for Dan Devine
5/13/2002 12:00:00 AM | Football
May 13, 2002
Columbia, Mo. - The family of legendary University of Missouri football coach and administrator Dan Devine has arranged for a memorial service to be held in Columbia.
Devine, who passed away last week at his home outside Phoenix, Ariz. after a year-long illness, will be remembered in Columbia on Saturday, June 1st at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, located at 903 Bernadette Drive. The service will begin at 2 p.m., and is open to the public.
In addition, at the request of the family, memorials are suggested to the Dan Devine Memorial Athletic Endowment, c/o MU Athletic Department, P.O. Box 677, Hearnes Center, Columbia, Mo., 65205.
Services for Devine are being held this week in Arizona, with a visitation set from 5-9 p.m., Thursday, May 16th, at the Carr-Tenney Mortuary in Tempe. A rosary service follows at 7:30 p.m. Funeral services will be held the next morning at 10 a.m. at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Phoenix. Burial will follow at St. Francis Cemetery. A Dan Devine Celebration will then be held at the Carson Student Athlete Center at Sun Devil Stadium.
A member of the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame, Devine amassed a record of 173-56-9 in 22 seasons as a collegiate head coach. He spent 13 years at Missouri (1958-70), and was credited with turning the Tigers into a national power, as he went 93-37-7. In the decade of the 1960s, Missouri was the only school in the country to lose no more than three games in any season, and his 1960 Big Eight Championship squad became the only Tiger football team to reach number one in the national rankings. He also served as MU's Director of Athletics from 1967-70, and again served in that position from 1992-94 before retiring.
