Adia and Pete Barnes
UA women’s baseketball coach Adia Barnes and her father, Pete. Pete died in a Tucson hospice in 2018.
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Pete Barnes, who died in Tucson in 2018 from Alzheimer’s disease and other health issues, played both baseball and football at Southern University. The Los Angeles Dodgers took Barnes in the sixth round of the 1965 amateur draft, but he chose football instead. He went on to play linebacker for the NFL's Chargers, Oilers, Patriots and Cardinals.
Editor's note: This story was originally published in May 2018. In 2017, Barnes was summoned to Texas, where she began to help a man she barely knew.
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