Amy C. King
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Amy Catheryne Patterson King (December 30, 1928 – June 7, 2014) was an American mathematician and mathematics educator who became Foundation Professor of mathematics at Eastern Kentucky University, and was recognized for her distinguished teaching by the Kentucky Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Amy Catheryne Patterson was born on December 30, 1928, in Douglas, Wyoming. She married Don King, who became a professor of dentistry;[1] they had no children.[2] Her brother, James D. Patterson, was also an academic, a professor of physics at the Florida Institute of Technology.[1]
She became a member of the Centenary United Methodist Church of Lexington, Kentucky. She died on June 7, 2014, of burns and smoke inhalation from a fire at her home in Lexington.[1][2]
