Family, football, community and kids made up the fabric of Rick Kaderly’s life.For almost 40 years, Mr. Kaderly served as a coach, councilman and New Franklin community leader who touched the lives of almost every child who played football in the Manchester system.Mr. Kaderly, 58, died from cardiac-related problems Sunday at Summa Barberton Hospital, where he had been taken after he was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car. He had just placed an election sign in a yard, New Franklin Mayor Al Bollas said Monday. Mr. Kaderly was running in November for the at-large New Franklin City Council seat that he had been appointed to in January.“He was a dedicated, hard-working public servant,” Bollas said. “He even coached our police chief and half of our police officers.”Manchester High School principal and football coach Jim France said he considered Mr. Kaderly a “great friend.”“He was a wonderful Christian man and a great role model to kids and adults. He gave so much of himself to the schools and the kids and the community,” France said.Mr. Kaderly and his wife, Cheryl, were high school sweethearts and 1971 graduates of Manchester High School. The couple was married 38 years.“As my mom put it, they loved each other for 44 years,” the couple’s son, Rick Kaderly Jr., said Monday.“He taught me so much more [than football], and I think I can speak for all of the players he coached,” Kaderly Jr. said. “He taught us how to be men. He taught us how to handle life, how to treat others and he taught us about family.” Mr. Kaderly was a member of the first Manchester peewee football team formed in the 1960s. He went on to play in high school and was one of the community’s biggest supporters of its football programs, school Superintendent Sam Reynolds said.“He taught generations of Manchester football players to do their best and to work together. His legacy of teamwork and hard work are gifts that have made a positive difference in all our lives, Reynolds said.“He will be greatly missed.”A volunteer freshman coach, Mr. Kaderly also worked on the sideline crew at high school games, was a founding member of the Manchester Alumni Association and a member of the Swede-Olsson Jim France Hall of Fame.He attended the University of Akron and was a licensed real-estate agent working out of the Green Cutler Real Estate office. At the time of his death, he was employed at Spirit Delivery and Distribution as a supervisor of routes.Mr. Kaderly was elected to five consecutive terms on the Manchester Board of Education, serving 19 years — 15 as president. He stepped down as board president in December to accept the at-large council seat Todd McKenney vacated upon his election as state representative of the 43rd Ohio House District.He was required to run for the seat in the next general election, Bollas said.“He was like ‘Mr. Manchester’ out here,” the mayor said.Mr. Kaderly’s son said that at the beginning of every season his father told the parents of new players that for the next four months the kids he was coaching were his kids.“That was a bald-faced lie,” Kaderly Jr. said, “because if you ever had the pleasure of being coached by him, you knew you were his for life.“There was no greater compliment you could pay him than to come up to him years later and call him ‘Coach,’ ” he said.Mr. Kaderly leaves his wife, Cheryl; son Rick Jr. and his wife, Jamie; daughter Michelle and her husband, Bryant Anderson; and grandchildren, Hunter Anderson, 4, and Alexis (Lexi) Anderson, 10 months, all of New Franklin.Funeral arrangements are pending at Bacher Funeral Home, 3326 Manchester Road.Friends may call at Cornerstone Church, 578 Killian Road, from 1 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. A “celebration of life” service will be held at the church at 11 a.m. Thursday.Interment will be at Manchester Cemetery.In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Richard J. Kaderly Scholorship Fund at any FirstMerit Bank branch.Kathy Antoniotti can be reached at 330-996-3565 or kantoniotti@thebeaconjournal.com.