Paul Webb, who built Old Dominion into a Division I men’s basketball powerhouse and has long been praised as one of the great gentleman of college basketball coaching, passed away on Friday morning at his home in Virginia Beach.
Eddie Webb, his oldest son who played for and coached with his father, said he passed peacefully surrounded by family, including his four children – Kenneth and Douglas Webb and Deborah Webb Sanders, in addition to Eddie.
Webb died two years to the date after his wife, Charlotte, also passed away. Charlotte and Paul met in high school and were married for 72 years.
“That was his plan,” Eddie Webb said. “He loved our mother so much.”
Webb, 94, was in failing health in recent months and asked to be put in hospice care at his home. He recently visited Charlotte’s grave. “He said, ‘Charlotte, honey, I’m going to be with you soon,”  Eddie Webb said.