Southington High Coaching Legend's Funeral Is This Week: UPDATE

SOUTHINGTON, CT — The funeral for a beloved football coach killed in a car accident earlier this year is Thursday in Bristol, according to the Southington High School football program

The team posted funeral arrangements on its X (formerly 'Twitter') page Wednesday evening.

According to the post, relatives and friends of Charles A. Drury may call at Funk Funeral Home, 35 Bellevue Ave., Bristol, on Thursday, April 18 from 4 to 7 p.m..

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, April 19, at 11 a.m. at St. Gregory the Great Church, 235 Maltby St., Bristol.

Drury, an assistant coach and Connecticut coaching legend,was killed in a car accident last February in New York State.

The Southington Blue Knights Football Twitter page posted a notice on Feb. 20 that Drury, who was an assistant on his son Mike Drury's SHS football squad since retiring as a head coach himself in 2011, had died.

According to the Hartford Courant, Drury was killed in a car accident in Newburgh, N.Y. — a town located north of New York City at the intersection of Interstates 84 and 87 a bit upstate — on Tuesday morning.

"The BKF Family and Football community has suffered a terrible loss today," reads a statement on the team's "X" (formerly Twitter) page. "Coach Chuck was a great coach, leader, mentor, and most of all great person. We will miss him terribly. Please keep the Drury family in your thoughts and prayers."

According to the Courant, Drury, 77, retired from being head coach in 2011 at Pomperaug High School in Southbury, a regional school district that also serves Middlebury.

He went on to be an assistant on his son Mike Drury's staff at Southington High School, helping to lead that program into becoming a state high school football powerhouse, winning state titles in 2013 and 2014.

SHS lost in the state CIAC playoffs last December, marking an end to the Drury dynasty.

Mike Drury, a Bristol resident, stepped down from the head coaching job at SHS in December to spend more time with his family.

Chuck Drury's death comes as SHS athletics continues to mourn the loss of assistant girls basketball coach Bill Queen, who died suddenly last month after a practice.

For Charles Drury's online obituary, click on this link.

For the full Hartford Courant Report, click on this link.

For more information on Southington High School football, click on this link.

From Dec. 7, 2023: 'Legendary Football Coach Steps Down In Southington'

From Jan. 24: 'Southington High Mourns Death Of Beloved Basketball Coach'