From elwoodpublishing.com
Garth Cone, basketball coach at Alexandria, died early March 23 at Community Hospital in Anderson after a sudden illness. His huge heart made a difference in thousands of lives.
For more than 30 years, Cone was a teacher and basketball coach for the Alexandria-Monroe School Corporation. Cone mentored hundreds of basketball players in his years in Alexandria.
His basketball philosophy was built around three basic ideas: hard work, repetition of fundamentals, and dedication to the goal of taking young boys and developing them into young men who will become citizens of which the community can be proud.
Cone also founded the Tiger Readers program in the 1990s, which coupled reading and athletics in the Alexandria school system – a program which has been duplicated all over the state of Indiana.
There will be many “coach Cone” stories shared in Madison County and throughout the state in the upcoming days as the number of people he has impacted over the years is incredible.
Cone and his wife, Cinda, were parents of two sons, Rodney and Thad, and a daughter, Krista Baledge. He also had eight grandchildren and one great-grandson.
NOTE: We’ve posted an interview with this story that Executive Director Mike McGraw did with Cone following the Tigers’ victory over Mississinewa in late January. Our deepest condolences to the family and community …
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