Ray Johnson, the basketball star who helped lead a dynasty at South Kingstown High in the 1960s and went on to the state’s biggest stage at Providence College in the 1970s, has died. He was 76.

The Friars paid tribute to Johnson via social media Wednesday. An obituary posted online by the Avery-Storti Funeral Home said Johnson passed away last Thursday.

Johnson was born in Narragansett and lived there for most of his life. His surviving family members include brother Charles Johnson and his wife Mary Ann, sister Sandra Johnson, daughter Raye Anne Johnson-Seiger and her husband, Gary, niece Kasey and nephew Max, and his former wife, Jacqueline Smith.

“I used to see him at the beach all the time,” South Kingstown athletic director Terry Lynch said late Wednesday. “We would talk. Just a nice, nice man — kind of unassuming for what he had done.”

The Rebels played in Class C six decades ago, a place reserved for the state’s smaller schools. They rose above their size thanks to a core that included the 6-foot-7-inch Johnson and fellow All-State selections Bill Hazard, George Peckham and Bradley Webster. The program finished unbeaten in 1964-65 and 1965-66, starting a run of three consecutive Interscholastic League championships.