I am deeply saddened today to hear that Dawn Coe Jones has passed away at the age of 56 in Florida. She is survived by her husband Jimmy and her son Jimmy who is on a scholarship at South Florida University.
She had been battling cancer called sarcoma, had surgery for that awful disease in March when she had her knee replaced, but sadly succumbed to it earlier this morning.
All of us in the golf media always looked forward to talking with Dawn, originally from Lake Cowichan in BC, she always had great spirit, was passionately Canadian with a love for her Montreal Canadians and later the Tampa Bay Lightning.
She has remained close to her peers, Nancy Scranton, Gail Graham and Lisa Walters. Dawn was a 3 time winner on the LPGA Tour, and was a regular on my Fairways golf show for 20 years. It was always great to phone her at her home in Florida, and our conversations were always entertaining and insightful.
She won the British Columbia Junior championship in 1978 and 1979 and later the B.C. Amateur title in 1982-83. She also won the 1983 Canadian Amateur title and was a NCAA All-American.
She was inducted to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2003 and in 2011 into the B.C. Golf Hall of Fame
She was humble, down to earth with an endearing sense of humour, a great wife and mother and a heck of a golfer.
RIP Dawn, I miss you already.
Bryan Angus
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