A Celebration of Life service will held for Aaron Douglas at 7 p.m. Sunday, at the Cokesbury Center of Cokesbury United Methodist Church located, 9915 Kingston Pike.
The former Maryville High School and University of Tennessee football standout was found dead Thursday morning in Florida. He was 21.
Douglas' teammates, past and present, will serve as honorary pall bearers.
Memorials may be made to Cokesbury United Methodist Church for the Children’s Center or nickskidsfund.com, a charitable foundation started by Nick and Terry Saban while the Sabans were at Michigan State University.
An extensive obituary will be published on Sunday. Click Funeral Home Farragut Chapel, 11915 Kingston Pike, is handling the arrangements.
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Comments » 25
JayGee writes:
Tragic. God be with the family.
volguy#211935 writes:
Sincere condolences to the Douglas family, as well as other family and friends. It's tough enough to hear something like this and have no connection other than UT. I cannot imagine their pain. May God bless and give you strength.
forkball writes:
Peace be with his family during their darkest days. Where he went to school is irrelevant. Hopefully compassion will overtake those who insist on wearing their colors.
hglover40#234154 writes:
I love UT football but right now it don't mean much. When I read this football is the farthest from my mind. I think about how tough these days must be for AD family and hope they will find strength.
If anyone reads this article and thinks they should post something about football (i.e. where he decided to play), please think some more.
licknpromise777#651578 writes:
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lail#204076 (staff) writes:
I couldn't agree more. Aaron Douglas' death is tragic. Keep it classy, folks.
VOLliven2it writes:
R I P Aaron, we wanted more for you from our school but no one wanted this to happen for any reason. God's nearness to your parents and friends. It is a tough time for life and for sports. Life is always the bigger issue, not transfers, not where one ends up attending, not how many starts or honors one gets on the field. I'm done, it is sad.
lail#204076 (staff) writes:
It might have to do with the fact that out of 147 words you wrote in your first comment, only 12 related to his death and then only in passing.
- jack lail
UTsNo1Fan writes:
I couldn't agree more. I was actually about to write the exact same thing. Dude is so burnt of AD's snub to UT by going to Alabama that he feels he's gotta bring it up in the comment section of his freaking memorial press release. Pathetic. Then he tries to cover himself by saying "of course football is no where near as important as life" garbage. A) NO DUH, and B) So important that you feel the need to talk about how he snubbed UT by going to Alabama and only say one OBVIOUS statement that life is more important football...? I was as pissed as any other Vol fan when he committed to out hated rival... BUT WHO GIVES A FLIP considering the poor HUMAN BEING (NOT Vol, NOT Bammer, NOT Rebel) passed away. Sadly this class act relishes AD's death as some kind of karma... he'll deny it, but it drips from his posts.
LJS1984 writes:
Very Sad Situation. Pretty classy of former Vol Ramon Foster of the Steelers to sign the Douglas guestbook.
TommyJack writes:
Prayers for the family and for Aaron's soul.
pdhuff#552644 writes:
Sad to see this winding road end so soon for one so young.
One never knows when the Great Scorer comes to mark against your name. Grantland R.
keithknoxvol writes:
Praying God gives the family strength for the days and weeks ahead. May they find some kind of peace knowing that so many cared for AD. A life ended far to soon. Weeping last for the night, but joy comes in the morning. God speed David, Karla, and Ashley. You along with Aaron were and are loved by so many.
newportvol writes:
So sorry for the loss of AD.. Prayers are with the family seems like to often latley young athletes have been taken from us.. Maybe we need to look at the side effects of the vitamins and workout pills these athlehes take all the gnc pills and legal over the counter steriods cant be good for our young atheletes..
vol49 writes:
My prayers to the AD family. Sometimes in death, we don't understand why things happen they way they do, they still happen understandable or not. Aaron is in a much better place. The tragic loss of this young man is going to affect his family and friends for a long time but eventually things will become easier. May God uplift and bless you all in this time of mourning.
A_Voice_ofReason writes:
Gotta love censorship.
mempuss writes:
agreed!! lame move mods
537081 writes:
Gods Speed Aaron.
RJ_Vol writes:
My thoughts and prayers are w/ the Douglas family.
voloffaith writes:
If it was inappropiate then I'm ok with it. Mainly off topic which spilling verbage that had nothing to do with article on memorial service. Put the STUFF on another blog that it pertains to.
Prayers to the family and friends for the"peace that surpasses all understanding." Peace the world can't supply with all it's well intentioned efforts....
rabidvol1998 writes:
Censorship is what the government does. Monitor is what the staff of a company that provides us with a free place to express our opinions does. Start your own site if you want no "censorship".
posivol writes:
rip AD
pammyvol1000 writes:
Very sad and tragic for the family and those close friends. Their lives will never be the same. I speak from seeing it happen to my sister who lost her daughter 25 yrs ago to a car wreck. Her life was never the same.
TKO writes:
Godspeed. May the good lord bless this family and hold this young man in the palm of his hand.
So very tragic and sad.
Andi4GOP writes:
God bless the Douglas family during their time of loss. So many hearts are broken..... And God bless Aaron's friends from UT, Western Arizona, & Bama....
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