Memories come to him like flashes of light.The old football coach reaches back in his mind, grips what he can and hurls it into the air.
One word here. Another there.
Football.
Volleyball.
Catalina.
John Featherstone—better known simply as Feather, the fiery, passionate and championship-winning coach who for three decades ruled California junior college football ranks—is in a memory care facility near his home in Redondo Beach.
The 71-year-old last coached football in 2015, last played volleyball last year and last visited Catalina Island on Aug. 5, two weeks before a seizure left him listless and hospitalized.