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Surrounded by family at his Horseshoe Bay home, former Texas Longhorn football coach Fred Akers died Monday, Dec. 7, from complications of dementia at the age of 82.
Akers’ death came a little more than four months after his wife, Diane, had pleaded with Gov. Greg Abbott to reconsider an executive order which prevented family visitations at Texas nursing homes in the wake of the COVID-19…