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Hempstead's Theron 'Teddy' Banks Sr. dies

Originally published: November 21, 2012 7:32 PM
Updated: November 21, 2012 9:18 PM
By SID CASSESE  sid.cassese@newsday.com

Theron "Teddy" Banks Sr. of Hempstead, a former Nassau County social worker, Hempstead High School attendance officer and a Korean War veteran, died Tuesday of pneumonia at Nassau University Medical Center. He was 84.

Banks, who grew up in Hempstead, was a sports enthusiast who in 1946 was the first African-American captain of the Hempstead High School Tigers football team.

He would...

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