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Avondale AZ Obituaries and Death Notices
Monday, August 22, 2016Russell, Sabrina Arnold, Hank Woodmore, Peter Durham, Gerald Rasool, Terri Covington and others who came to pay their respects.“He kept us out of trouble,” said Woodmore, a state sprint champ at Avondale in the early 1980s.“He saw the No. 1 in all of us, the greatest in me and everyone else,” said Lance Davis, former Pontiac Central basketball coach. “That’s what I remember about him.”Kaiser, a noted jazz aficionado, was the son of Cecil Kaiser, who played in the Negro Baseball Leagues as a pitcher during the 1940s. He also worked for General Motors, and was a counselor for the Urban League.But he always found the time to coach, counsel and mentor kids.He was an assistant track coach with Dave Edwards at Pontiac Central when the Chiefs were 1997 state runnersup to Pontiac Northern, and coached a number of all-state athletes. But he also coached football, basketball and wrestling.“We coached together for 37 years,” said former Pontiac Central football coach Irv Speaks, who started his coaching career with Kaiser. “I lost a friend, a brother and a mentor.”Graves said Kaiser’s crown jewel was Jefferson Junior High in Pontiac, where he coached and mentored hundreds of youngsters through the years. He was a mediator of sorts, according to former Pontiac School Board President Kevin Gross, when there was a turf war between factions of youth on Pontiac’s South and East sides during the 1970s. “Jefferson Junior High was a safe haven for us,” said Gross. “(And) Bob was an intrical part in my brother Val and I. He turned us into men.”Indeed, Kaiser’s goal was peace and cooperation as a vanguard for youth development.“My dad coined the phrase ‘can’t we all just get along’ long before Rodney King,” Graves said.And future world heavyweight boxing champion Pinklon Thomas was a youth on the wild side before Kaiser helped reel him in through athletics and mentoring. “He kept a lot of people out of trouble and he helped a lot of people realize their potential,” said Thomas, who worked out with some of the best boxing trainers in the country. “(But) none of them had touched my life the way Bobby did.”...
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Monday, August 22, 2016Russell, Sabrina Arnold, Hank Woodmore, Peter Durham, Gerald Rasool, Terri Covington and others who came to pay their respects.“He kept us out of trouble,” said Woodmore, a state sprint champ at Avondale in the early 1980s.“He saw the No. 1 in all of us, the greatest in me and everyone else,” said Lance Davis, former Pontiac Central basketball coach. “That’s what I remember about him.”Kaiser, a noted jazz aficionado, was the son of Cecil Kaiser, who played in the Negro Baseball Leagues as a pitcher during the 1940s. He also worked for General Motors, and was a counselor for the Urban League.But he always found the time to coach, counsel and mentor kids.He was an assistant track coach with Dave Edwards at Pontiac Central when the Chiefs were 1997 state runnersup to Pontiac Northern, and coached a number of all-state athletes. But he also coached football, basketball and wrestling.“We coached together for 37 years,” said former Pontiac Central football coach Irv Speaks, who started his coaching career with Kaiser. “I lost a friend, a brother and a mentor.”Graves said Kaiser’s crown jewel was Jefferson Junior High in Pontiac, where he coached and mentored hundreds of youngsters through the years. He was a mediator of sorts, according to former Pontiac School Board President Kevin Gross, when there was a turf war between factions of youth on Pontiac’s South and East sides during the 1970s. “Jefferson Junior High was a safe haven for us,” said Gross. “(And) Bob was an intrical part in my brother Val and I. He turned us into men.”Indeed, Kaiser’s goal was peace and cooperation as a vanguard for youth development.“My dad coined the phrase ‘can’t we all just get along’ long before Rodney King,” Graves said.And future world heavyweight boxing champion Pinklon Thomas was a youth on the wild side before Kaiser helped reel him in through athletics and mentoring. “He kept a lot of people out of trouble and he helped a lot of people realize their potential,” said Thomas, who worked out with some of the best boxing trainers in the country. “(But) none of them had touched my life the way Bobby did.”...
