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Petey Jones, a popular member of T.C. Williams High’s legendary 1971 state championship football team and a longtime employee of Alexandria City Public Schools, died Monday after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 65.

Jones died around 2:40 a.m. at Prince William Medical Center in Manassas, his daughter Keisha Boggan Campbell said.

Jones retired this past fall after nearly 30 years as an employee of Alexandria City Public Schools, including a long stint as a security officer at T.C. Williams. It was there that Jones rose to fame as a senior football player in 1971, helping lead the Titans on an undefeated state championship run that was later dramatized in Disney’s 2000 film “Remember the Titans,” in which actor Donald Faison played Jones.

Before that season, Jones had played at George Washington High before it became one of Alexandria’s three high schools — along with T.C. Williams and Francis Hammond — to merge, sending upperclassmen to T.C. Williams and consolidating the other two into junior high schools.

From 2014: Petey Jones, immortalized in ‘Remember the Titans,’ works at T.C. Williams High School

As Herman Boone, the team’s coach who was portrayed in the movie by Denzel Washington, worked to integrate the team at T.C. Williams, Jones became a magnetic presence, a flirty jokester who was often known for organizing dice games in the bathroom. He also requested to switch from running back to linebacker during his senior year and played a key role for the Titans defense.

“Petey Jones is the best football player I’ve ever coached. He was tough. He was hard-nosed. He was mean. He was agile, mobile and hostile,” Boone said in a telephone interview Monday. “He was a great kid, a great person. Everybody loved Petey.”

Jones was born at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Alexandria on Nov. 20, 1953, and later attended Charles Houston Elementary and Parker-Gray Middle School while playing sports in Alexandria’s youth leagues. After graduating from T.C. Williams, Jones accepted a football scholarship to Norfolk State, but he withdrew midway through his sophomore season after having rarely seen the field.

He eventually returned to Alexandria and gave back to the community, joining the Alexandria parks department in 1986 after a stint working for Eastern Airlines at National Airport.

“He meant a lot to this family, and to the Alexandria community, especially T.C. Williams,” said Jones’s son, Marcus, in a telephone interview Monday.

Jones later became a beloved security guard at T.C. Williams, where sometimes the male students would joke with him about his character’s famous fumbling problem in the movie, which Jones would later say was fictional.

“And I did not fumble the football,” Jones said in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/petey-jones-immortalized-in-remember-the-titans-still-works-at-tc-williams-high-school/2014/10/13/bdb5f0a4-4e36-11e4-aa5e-7153e466a02d_story.html?utm_term=.b452fc2df252" target=_blank>2014 story in The Washington Post</a>.

According to that same article, sometimes students at the school would ask him about the racism and segregation he had endured; he would tell them stories about separate water fountains at G.C. Murphy in Old Town Alexandria, or the time the team bus got egged at West Springfield High.

He did public speaking about his story, which helped fund the ’71 Original Titans Scholarship Foundation. That platform became more meaningful after Jones battled his own demons later in life — in 2000, he was charged with drunken driving for a third time, but he never served jail time — that led him to join St. John Baptist Church and become a better role model for moviegoers and speech-listeners, as well as his three children, Keisha, Crystal and Marcus, all of whom graduated from T.C. Williams.

“We’re all Titans. We’ve all graduated from T.C. Williams High School. Our father instilled in us a sense of pride in our school, a sense of pride in our community,” Jones’s daughter Keisha said Monday.

“He was our dad, first and foremost,” Crystal said. “What he gave to us, clearly, he must have gave to the community, the love and support.”

Jones is the third member of the 1971 Titans team to die in recent months. Julius Campbell, a defensive end played in the film by Wood Harris, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/01/26/julius-campbell-key-player-tc-williams-remember-titans-team-dies/?utm_term=.26181f863812" target=_blank>died in January</a> at 65. In May, Bill Yoast, who was Boone’s top assistant coach and was portrayed by Will Patton in the movie, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/05/25/bill-yoast-assistant-coach-tc-williams-remember-titans-football-team-dies/?utm_term=.2253eea49050" target=_blank>died at 94</a>. Boone himself reflected on the Titans on Monday, remembering fond moments he shared with Jones.

“I’m going to miss him. The team is going to miss him,” Boone said. “The world is going to miss Petey.”

<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/05/25/bill-yoast-assistant-coach-tc-williams-remember-titans-football-team-dies/">Bill Yoast, assistant coach from T.C. Williams ‘Remember the Titans’ football team, dies at 94</a>

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/01/26/julius-campbell-key-player-tc-williams-remember-titans-team-dies/">Julius Campbell, a key player from the T.C. Williams ‘Remember the Titans’ team, dies at 65</a>

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