Area native was longtime Wright State coach

Fredric Jefferson, who attended Wright State University before becoming a longtime golf coach at the school, has died. He was 66.

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Jefferson was born in Richmond, Ind., in 1951 before graduating from Eaton High School and Wright State, according to his obituary. He was the Wright State men’s golf coach for 24 years until his 2009 retirement. He was then later an assistant women’s golf coach at Penn State.

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