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Article: Hickory High principal dies.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2009
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By Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
The Virginian-Pilot
CHESAPEAKE
Woodley J. Koonce III, a veteran principal who led four of Chesapeake's schools during his career including, most recently, Hickory High School, lost his battle with lymphoma Saturday evening. He was 57.
He is survived by his wife, Vickie, and daughters, Kristy Koonce Hedrick and Tracy Koonce McClung. His son, Woodley Matthew "Matt" Koonce, died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 18.
Friends and colleagues remembered Koonce on Sunday as a caring principal who took the ballooning populations of his last two schools in stride and was always ready to crack a joke.