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Terry Lance King

Birth
Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
7 Apr 2020 (aged 82)
Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Terry Lance King, 82, of West Hanover Township, passed away on April 7, 2020 in the Hershey Medical Center. He was born February 1, 1938 in Hershey, the son of the late Peter Orville King and Blanche (Deppen) Yeich.

Terry was a 1956 graduate of Hershey High School and 1958 graduate of the former Hershey Junior College. He was a 1963 graduate of Shepherd College with a B.S. in Education and earned his Master’s in Education from Shippensburg State College. He served in the U.S. Army from February 1959 until January of 1961. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1961-1965.

He retired as a health and physical education teacher from the Central Dauphin School District. While employed at the school he was Lower Paxton Jr. High Basketball Coach of the year (1965-1966); Assistant Varsity Football Coach of the 1972 Central Pennsylvania Champion Central Dauphin Rams, and coached the Linglestown Junior High School Viking Football District Champs in 1992.

Terry is survived by his two sons, James S. King and his wife, Margaret of Morristown, NJ; David L. King and his wife, Carla of Hershey, PA; three grandchildren, Andrew, Samuel and Lauren King. He was preceded in death by his wife, Norma King in October of 2006.

Private interment will be in the Hershey Cemetery.
Terry Lance King, 82, of West Hanover Township, passed away on April 7, 2020 in the Hershey Medical Center. He was born February 1, 1938 in Hershey, the son of the late Peter Orville King and Blanche (Deppen) Yeich.

Terry was a 1956 graduate of Hershey High School and 1958 graduate of the former Hershey Junior College. He was a 1963 graduate of Shepherd College with a B.S. in Education and earned his Master’s in Education from Shippensburg State College. He served in the U.S. Army from February 1959 until January of 1961. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1961-1965.

He retired as a health and physical education teacher from the Central Dauphin School District. While employed at the school he was Lower Paxton Jr. High Basketball Coach of the year (1965-1966); Assistant Varsity Football Coach of the 1972 Central Pennsylvania Champion Central Dauphin Rams, and coached the Linglestown Junior High School Viking Football District Champs in 1992.

Terry is survived by his two sons, James S. King and his wife, Margaret of Morristown, NJ; David L. King and his wife, Carla of Hershey, PA; three grandchildren, Andrew, Samuel and Lauren King. He was preceded in death by his wife, Norma King in October of 2006.

Private interment will be in the Hershey Cemetery.


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