Background
Booth was born and reared in the small city of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
Booth was born and reared in the small city of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.
He graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He graduated in 1958 from Minden High School, where one of his football coaches was his maternal uncle, Patrick Cary Nation (1918-2005), and then in 1962 from Louisiana State University, at which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education.
After his football career, Booth was an electrical contractor for the IC Electric Company. Booth was killed in 1972 in a plane crash in Ontario, Canada. At Minden High School, Booth played football from 1954 to 1957.
He also played baseball in 1956 and ran track from 1955-1958.
He was All-State in track in 1957. At Louisiana State University, he played in the 1962 Senior Bowl.
Booth married the former Janice Schouest, whom he met at Louisiana State University, and was the father of two sons, Mike Booth (born ca 1963) and Coy Ulysses Booth (born ca 1965 - since deceased, automobile accident victim). Booth was a defensive end for the Ottawa Rough Riders in the Canadian Football League from 1962 to 1970.
At six feet tall and 240 pounds, many had considered him too small to be a defensive education
The team also lost the 54th Grey Cup game in 1966. The two were in Canada on a fishing trip when their four-seat Piper Cherokee Arrow crashed during a thunderstorm. Witnesses said that the plane blew up and fell to the ground, with wreckage spread over an area of some one and one-half miles.
The plane was en route from Windsor to London but crashed some ten miles (16 km) before reaching its destination.
Booth is interred at Westlawn Memorial Park in Gretna in Jefferson Parish.
He was an elected member of the MHS Student Council in his senior year.