Jesse Parker’s legend took off at Mesa Mountain View, so it’s appropriate that is where his life will be celebrated with a memorial inside the school’s auditorium on Aug. 19 at 5 p.m.

Parker, who led Mountain View to four of his five state football championship, died on Friday at the age of 77 after battling cancer and pneumonia.

Jon Parker, Jesse’s son, posted on social media that the family has requested in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the Jesse Parker Legacy Foundation (coachjesseparker.org), which supports educators and coaches who exhibit the same dedication as his father by pushing students and athletes to their full potential. Donations can also be made to Trinity Church, where Parker worshiped, his son wrote.

“My family deeply appreciates all the love and support that has been expressed to our family,” Jon Parker wrote.

Parker will also be going into the Phoenix Union High School District Sports Hall of Fame this year.

Zach Munoz, athletic director of the PUHSD, said that the Hall of Fame committee had selected Parker before his death for introduction into the district’s Hall of Fame.

“We are planning to honor his work in the PUHSD and the 1974 football state championship at Camelback,” Munoz wrote in an email. “We also will be having the induction of his quarterback on that ’74 state championship team, current had football coach at the University of Massachusetts, Mark Whipple.” 

Tucson Amphitheater football said that a memorial will be held Aug. 5 at 3 p.m. at the school for former Amphi football coach Vern Friedli, who died on Friday at 80. Friedli won 331 games in his career. That was a state record before it was broken last season by Tempe Marcos de Niza coach Paul Moro.

Amphitheater said that a time and place still is being determined.

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