The real Lynyrd Skynyrd Leonard Skinner- a basketball coach at Robert E. Lee High School in the mid-60s who influenced and inspired the name of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died Monday in Florida at the age of 77, his daughter Susie Moore said.
He was fighting with Alzheimer’s disease and died in his sleep Monday Morning at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor in Jacksonville, where he had been living for a year.
