Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Pegues , Johnnie Wesley December 26, 2007
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Bastrop Daily Enterprise - Dec 29, 2007
" A good man is hard to find. "

Johnnie Wesley Pegues was born April 10, 1938 to the late Phil Pegues, Jr, and 
Laura Miles Pegues in Trenton, La. in Desoto Parish. He was the third child of 
seven children.

He graduated from Desoto Parish Training School in Mansfield, La. After 
graduating from high school in 1956, he entered Southern University in Baton 
Rouge on a football scholarship where he excelled under Coach W. M. Mumford and 
was an outstanding player. He was named an All SWAC Conference Guard all four 
years of his college career.

 
 
He received his Master's degree, plus 30 in 1972 from Northeast Louisiana 
University in Monroe, La. He was an active church member of St. Mary CME Temple 
and served as a Sunday school teacher, president of the Steward Board for many 
years, and a member of the Trustee Board. He was instrumental in the building 
of this present church structure as shown by his name inscribed on the 
cornerstone of the church building. He was also a trustee for the Louisiana 
Region of the Fourth Episcopal District.

Pegues started his coaching and teaching career in Shreveport at Notre Dame 
Catholic High School where his football team won two state football 
championships and 28 games in football. He taught and coached track, tennis, 
and basketball at C. H. Iron High School in Benton, La. and in 1964 he coached 
the girls' basketball team to a State AA Championship. His tennis team was 
state runners-up. He was selected as head coach of the North-South All Star 
Game by the Pelican State Coaches Association and was regarded as one of the 
best and successful coaches in Louisiana. He was highly sought by several high 
schools. In 1965, he accepted the coaching position at Morehouse High School in 
Bastrop as head football coach and served there until the schools were 
integrated and he was transferred to Bastrop High School as an assistant 
football coach and head track coach.

His educational experience included assistant principal at Mer Rouge Elementary 
School in Mer Rouge, and assistant principal at Bastrop Middle School. In 1992, 
he was inducted into the Southern University's Football Hall of Fame. He 
retired in 1996 after teaching and coaching for 36 years. However, as much as 
he loved coaching and teaching, his greatest joy came for helping his children 
and grandchildren become successful and productive members of their 
communities. All four children graduated from college and three have earned 
their Master's degree. When his youngest child (Alicia) job took her to South 
Africa, he went to visit her not once but twice! His oldest grandson, Jackie 
Carlton Skipper graduated from college in May 2007. Of course, he took a 
special delight in helping Carlton become an outstanding high school and 
college football player. In addition, when Carlton's begin coaching at Bastrop 
High in August of this year, he would often watch the team practice 
and "critique" his coaching.

 
He died on Wednesday, December 26, 2007. His parents, a son, Bobby Charles 
Mims, and brother, Arthur James Pegues, preceded him in death. He leaves to 
cherish his precious memories, his beloved wife, Princess; four children, 
Angela Pegues (Mer Rouge), Anthony Tyrone Pegues and wife Gayla (Warner Robins, 
Ga.), Tony Pegues and wife Chandra (Beaumont, Texas) and Alicia Trenelle Pegues 
(Manila, Philippines); seven grandchildren, Jackie Carlton Skipper and wife 
Jineane (Bastrop), Tony Pegues II and Micah LeAnn Pegues (Beaumont, Texas), 
Alexander T. Pegues and Jonathan A, Pegues (Warner Robins, Ga.), Bobbi Mims 
(Mansfield, La., and Kaiyen Ma' Jor Pegues (Manila, Philippines); five sisters, 
Mary Pegues Anderson and Helen Pegues Long (Alfred) of Shreveport, Vema Pegues 
Parks (Collier) and Loradell Pegues Madison (Rubin) of Benton, La., and Velma 
Pegues Mosley; daughter-in-law Bomita Mims of Mansfield, La.; and many nieces, 
nephews, cousins, former students and athletes, and many friends.



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