Lincoln H. King ’53

Lincoln H. King ’53, of Carthage, Tex.; Aug. 16. He served three years in the U.S. Army in Korea, where he was assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps. In 1953, he was hired by the Hughes Aircraft Co. in Tucson. He was later transferred by Hughes to Anaheim, Calif. Switching careers, in 1970, he and his family moved to Maine, where he began teaching. One year later, they moved to Dallas and he was hired as the history teacher in the Gary Independent School District and taught there for more than 30 years. He and his students began the Loblolly Project, a history study of Gary and Panola County, Tex. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, and four nieces and nephews.