Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Koch, William A. May 23, 2008
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 5/25/2008
  Koch, William A.    
   
   
  William A. Koch, 83, World War II veteran and New York telephone pioneer died 
  peacefully in his sleep Friday, May 23, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Hospital, 
  Lebanon, Pa. Mr. Koch was a 1941 graduate of Olney High School, Philadelphia, 
  Pa., and a 1949 graduate of Cornell University, New York, where he majored in 
  electrical engineering, and was a catcher on the varsity baseball team. His 
  college career was interrupted by military service in the Signal Corps, where 
  he rose to the rank of technical sergeant while serving with the U.S. Army in 
  Belgium just after the Battle of the Bulge and into the occupation of Europe. 
  Upon his return from Europe, he married the former Miss Jean Flagg Koch. They 
  were married 55 years until her death in 2003. He is survived by three sons, 
  Raymond William Koch of Arlington, Virginia, Glenn Flagg Koch of Allentown, 
  Pa., and David Elm Koch of Baltimore, Maryland. He is also survived by his 
  sister, Jane Betz of Huntington Valley, Pa.; and two grandchildren, Emma Barton 
  Koch and Julian Flagg Koch, both of Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Koch, like his 
  father before him, spent his working career within the Bell System. He was one 
  of the system planners assigned to the New York World's Fair in 1962, and 
  joined AT&T International's group in Teheran, Iran, in 1976. Mr. Koch retired 
  from AT&T in 1982, and devoted the rest of his life to farming while supporting 
  both his family and Cornell University. He and his wife endowed a scholarship 
  at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine that will support married students 
  in their pursuit of an advanced degree. Mr. Koch will be interred with full 
  military honors at a private ceremony at the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, 
  Annville, Pa. The family asks in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be 
  made to the William A. & Jean Flagg Koch Scholarship at Cornell's College of 
  Veterinary Medicine, P.O. Box 2600, Ithaca, NY 14851. Grose Funeral Home, 
  Myerstown, Pa., is in charge of arrangements.  
  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 5/25/2008.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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