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Mourners Continue to Honor Legendary Football Coach Curry at Memorial

BERWICK — A day after a legendary high school coach passed away in Columbia County, the memorial continues to grow at the football field where George Curr...
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BERWICK -- A day after a legendary high school coach passed away in Columbia County, the memorial continues to grow at the football field where George Curry earned his title as the winningest high school football coach in the state.

They came with flowers. They came with prayers.

Mourners came out in droves to Crispin Field in Berwick throughout the day Saturday to pay their respects at a memorial made in honor of long time legendary football coach George Curry.

“He has helped so many children, so many families, so many kids is so many great ways. He's been a blessing,” said Evelyn Lucas of Berwick.

Curry died on Friday. He was 71.

The leader of the Berwick Bulldogs for decades, Curry went on to become the winningest high school football coach in the Commonwealth with 455 wins on the gridiron, 405 of those in Berwick.

“He's a legend. He's another Joe Paterno,” said Becky Chmielewski from Plymouth. “Paterno was there in Penn State, George Curry was here in Berwick, in all of the community.”

Chmielewski came with two friends from Luzerne County to honor Curry.

The two men with her worked as equipment managers for Curry when he served a three-year stint as head coach at Wyoming Valley West in Plymouth.

“It was fantastic. I mean, there would be a hundred people at his practice and say they would pay to come to watch his practices,” said Andy Karchurak from Wilkes-Barre.

“The man was a great man. Everything was for the kids, for the kids to play football, for the kids to go to college. He was just a legend,” said Leo Kendig from Wilkes-Barre.

Jason Kingery is the head basketball coach for Berwick and says the community has not only lost a great coach, but an amazing person.

“George was a good man, not just a good football coach but he was a good man. And everything that he did for the community, it's a tough loss,” said Kingery.

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