[Steelers News] Ed Tomlin, Father Of Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin Has Died Of A Heart Attack

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Ed Tomlin, Father Of Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin Has Died Of A Heart Attack

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Posted By: Sweets 01-18-2012 , 07:01 AM	#1

According to the Beaver County Times, the father of Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has died after suffering a heart attack in Ocala, Fla, Ed Tomlin was 63. As the Ocala Star-Banner writes, Tomlin was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1968, and he played eight games in Montreal of the CFL that season. In 2003, Tomlin became the president of the Marion County (Fla.) chapter of the NAACP. He apparently suffered the heart attack after returning home from a day of fishing. "He loved people. He was very knowledgeable, outgoing and loved fishing," Mazella Tomlin, Ed Tomlin's wife of 12 years, told the Star-Banner. Said Whitfield Jenkins, another former NCAAP president: "He added a lot to the NAACP. He was a leader and had the ability to draw people to him. He worked well with a broad category of people across race lines. He was a very thoughtful person and had a great knowledge of the community history and civil rights history.”

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01-18-2012, 09:02 AM

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