[1] After his playing career ended, Stockton was an assistant football coach at Big Spring, Texas, from 1939 to 1948.

[4] During World War II, he entered the Army in 1942, held the rank of sergeant, served overseas for 18 months with the Third Armored Division, and was wounded in Europe.

[6] In 1949, he became a physical education teacher and football coach at Lee Junior High School in San Angelo, Texas.

He died in 1965 of a heart attack while attending a high school football game at Odessa, Texas.

[4] On November 12, 1965, while watching a high school football game, Stockton collapsed from a heart attack and died.