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Social Media Honored 100-Year-Old Ron Douglas

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The only centurion ever to receive two standing ovations in front of a sold-out Memorial Stadium football crowd and a packed Pinnacle Bank Arena basketball throng died quietly Sunday afternoon, June 7, 2015. Family members were with Ron Douglas, 100, in Crete, Neb., where the oldest living Husker student-athlete/football letterman spent all but three years of his life, including two years in California during WWII, after graduating from the University of Nebraska.

An avid golfer and hunter, Douglas was a respected member of the community.