North Carolina’s “golfing storyteller” passes away at 97
By HOWARD WARD John Derr couldn’t have planned it better. The 97-year-old Derr died at his home in Pinehurst on June 6, the victim of a heart attack while watching American Pharoah become the first thoroughbred in 37 years to win the Triple Crown. Derr’s daughter, Marguerite “Cricket” Gentry, found him in his chair, the…