Early Years in Louisiana
Munyan was born in Leesville, the seat of Vernon Parish in western Louisiana and the home of the United States Army base at nearby Fort Polk. His father, Keith "Moose" Munyan, Sr. (September 6, 1932 - July 8, 1996), a native of Jackson, Ohio, coached in Leesville from 1959–1963. When Keith was two years of age, his family moved to the village of Mangham in Richland Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The senior Munyan coached football, basketball, and baseball at tiny Mangham High School from 1963-1989. Football teams under Coach Munyan compiled an outstanding record of 204 wins, 78 losses, and 6 ties. He led his Mangham Dragons to sixteen district championships and was selected "District Coach of the Year" on eighteen occasions. In 2003, Coach Munyan was named posthumously into the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
Munyan played football for four years (1975–1978 seasons) under his father's tutelage as well as basketball and baseball. His mother, the former Lucille Carter (born December 31, 1931), is a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and a retiree of the federal agency, the Farmers Home Administration, in Mangham. Munyan, who is single, has two sisters, both of whom are veteran educators: Toby M. Butler (born 1955) and husband Michael Kent Butler (born 1954) of Mangham and Debbie M. Price (born 1957) and husband George Allen Price, Jr. (born 1956), of Winnsboro, the seat of nearby Franklin Parish.
After high school, Munyan attended the University of Louisiana at Monroe (then Northeast Louisiana University) but did not graduate. He then became a decorator for a department store in Dallas, Texas, prior to launching his modeling career, which entailed travel, including a trip as far away as Barcelona, Spain.
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