Terry Burger

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I was born in Sharon, PA, but moved to Athens, Georgia in about 1957. I lived briefly in Greenville Mississippi -- about 2 years -- in the late 1960s, then moved back to Athens sometime in 1970.

I moved to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in Dec. of 1984 to take a job as a reporter for The Gettysburg Times. Except for 9 months in the Dayton, Ohio area in 1988-89, I have been in Gettysburg ever since.

I have a wide ranging job experience, centering on manual labor and truck driving until I became a reporter in January of 1985. I completed a degree in English Literature in September of 1979.

I have been married twice, but have no children.

I married Mary Louise Boykin in May of 1968 in a brief ceremony in an auto repair shop in Lake Village, AR. We divorced in AThens some six years later. I remarried the following year, in May or June, To Ellen Amanda Watkins. That marriage, too, failed six years later.

I have since had two long-term relationships, one lasting 11 years and my current one, now in its 24th year.

I am descended from Henry Burger of Botetourt County, Through his youngest son David, and his son the Rev. David Woodson Burger, his son William Burger (born in Kanawah County, WV, and his only son Ralph Burger, born in Sharon, Pennsylvania in 1917.

I have a brother, David George Burger, living in Athens, GA., and a half-sister, Sandra Wiesen Numann Ferney, who for some reason lives in Texas. She is the daughter of my father's first marriage.

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