United States of America
Lieutenant Colonel Karl William Teepe served in the U.S. Army for 20 years and 4 months. Karl served with the United States Army - and afterwards the Defense Intelligence Agency. Karl served during the years of the Vietnam War, the Cold War and Gulf War. Karl was 57 years old.
How He Died
Manner
Homicide
Cause
Multiple traumatic injuries
Place
Virginia
Biography
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, retired - and from 1991 a financial resources manager at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
He grew up in Jennings and was on the golf team at Riverview Gardens High School. He took his degree at Illinois in 1967 and went on active duty as an air defence artillery officer, left after just under two years, and came back in April 1971 for more than twenty more. He instructed ROTC at Missouri in the mid-seventies and took an MBA there in 1975, went through Command and General Staff College, and served in Germany and South Korea. He retired on the first of September 1991 with more than twenty-two years' active duty, and joined the DIA immediately.
He married Donna in June 1967; their children Wendy and Adam both went to William and Mary. Anyone who knew him could see his family was the thing that mattered most.
He liked the Smithsonian and the Mall, and would take the Metro over from the Pentagon at lunchtime just to get away and look at it. He always had a project on at home and was eager to show his daughter and her husband how it was coming.
He grew up in Jennings and was on the golf team at Riverview Gardens High School. He took his degree at Illinois in 1967 and went on active duty as an air defence artillery officer, left after just under two years, and came back in April 1971 for more than twenty more. He instructed ROTC at Missouri in the mid-seventies and took an MBA there in 1975, went through Command and General Staff College, and served in Germany and South Korea. He retired on the first of September 1991 with more than twenty-two years' active duty, and joined the DIA immediately.
He married Donna in June 1967; their children Wendy and Adam both went to William and Mary. Anyone who knew him could see his family was the thing that mattered most.
He liked the Smithsonian and the Mall, and would take the Metro over from the Pentagon at lunchtime just to get away and look at it. He always had a project on at home and was eager to show his daughter and her husband how it was coming.
Survivors
His wife Donna, his son Adam, his daughter Wendy and her husband Derek, his mother Ruth, and his brother Kenneth.
Tributes
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I came looking for your name and I found it, and I stopped here a while. Rest easy.
Keepsakes
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Service Record
U.S. Army
1969 – 1970
U.S. Army
United States Army - and afterwards the Defense Intelligence Agency
1971 – 1991
Conflicts
Awards & Decorations
6
For service and achievement
Meritorious Service Medal four oak leaf clusters ×5
Campaign and service medals
National Defense Service Medal a bronze service star
Memorials
National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
Line 1943
Also Remembered
September 11, 2001 — The Pentagon
Burial Information
Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
Section
64
Grave
5089
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Karl William Teepe
Lieutenant Colonel
U.S. Army
1969 - 1991
United States Army - and afterwards the Defense Intelligence Agency
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