Students encouraged to wear yellow Monday to honor former athlete - Hamilton Journal News

March 04, 2019 at 01:29PM

MONROE — 

A Butler County school is encouraging its students to wear yellow to school Monday in memory of a student who lost his battle to cancer, according to several posts on social media.

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Middletown High School students are being asked to wear yellow after Dominic Watkins, 19, a 2018 Monroe High School graduate, died Friday night at Cincinnati Children's Liberty Campus.

Watkins was a standout athlete until osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, claimed his left leg. He was diagnosed with cancer three times, starting in 2015.

On Nov. 21, 2017 — his 18th birthday — his left leg was amputated to eliminate the chance of the cancer spreading to other organs.

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For years, Watkins dated Adriana Browning, a Middletown High cheerleader.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

MONROE — 

A Butler County school is encouraging its students to wear yellow to school Monday in memory of a student who lost his battle to cancer, according to several posts on social media.

MORE: Monroe student who became amputee at 18 focuses on what he has gained, not lost

Middletown High School students are being asked to wear yellow after Dominic Watkins, 19, a 2018 Monroe High School graduate, died Friday night at Cincinnati Children's Liberty Campus.

Watkins was a standout athlete until osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, claimed his left leg. He was diagnosed with cancer three times, starting in 2015.

On Nov. 21, 2017 — his 18th birthday — his left leg was amputated to eliminate the chance of the cancer spreading to other organs.

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For years, Watkins dated Adriana Browning, a Middletown High cheerleader.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

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