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21 May 1923 – 2 August 2017 · born in Akron, Ohio · died at his home in Granger
The tie, exactly: resident — and at the strongest documentation this band contains. The University of Notre Dame's own announcement of his death, issued by its president, states that Ara Parseghian "died at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday (Aug. 2) at his home in Granger, Indiana." Granger was the home of his last decades: the place he returned to from the nursing-care facility in South Bend in his final days, to receive round-the-clock care at home, where he died surrounded by family. He was not born here and was not raised here, and the entry claims neither.
The course: Parseghian coached Notre Dame for eleven seasons, 1964–1974, to a 95-17-4 record and consensus national championships in 1966 and 1973, the university's eighth and ninth; he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980. His head-coaching line ran Miami of Ohio (1951–1955) and Northwestern (1956–1963) before South Bend, and his playing years were Miami's and the Cleveland Browns'. The coaching fame in its full depth belongs to the Notre Dame record; what this section adds is the second act. In 1994, with his son Michael and daughter-in-law Cindy, he founded the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation to fund the study of Niemann-Pick Type C disease, which had claimed three of his grandchildren — Michael, Marcia and Christa; the foundation raised more than $45 million, and in 2016 its work was folded into the university's Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund. He was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery at Notre Dame.
Sources:
- University of Notre Dame, "Former Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian dies at age 94," Notre Dame News, 2 August 2017 (carried identically by NCAA.com) — the death at his Granger home, the record, the championships, the Hall of Fame year, the foundation and its $45 million.
- The standard biographical record for the birth at Akron (21 May 1923), the coaching line, and the Cedar Grove burial.