A. Kurtz King, a longtime teacher and school administrator who lived at Moravian Manor in Lititz, died of natural causes Friday afternoon at Lancaster General Hospital.

He was 89.

King had lived at the retirement community for 11 years. He previously lived in Elizabethtown. Born in Reistville, Lebanon County, he was the son of the late Henry F. and Alice Kurtz King.  His wife, Mildred M. Hackman King, died in 1993.

A graduate of South Lebanon High School, King graduated from Juniata College in 1928 and received his master's degree in education from Rutgers University in 1932. He earned his doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950.

His teaching career began at Cornwall High School, Lebanon County, in 1928. He taught at Union High School in Vernon, N.J., from 1930 to 1932, and at Columbia High School in Maplewood N.J., from 1932 to 1934.

He later served as an administrator at South Lebanon High School, principal at Newtown High School and supervising principal at Bensalem High School.

In 1950, King was appointed superintendent of Regional District 4 in Deep River, Conn. He later served as superintendent of North Penn School District in Lansdale until 1967.

After teaching for a year at Moravian College, King became educational director for the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Banking. He then taught at Pierce Junior College in Philadelphia from 1973 until his retirement in 1976.

King was a member of Lititz Church of the Brethren and the Bensalem Township Rotary Club, where he served several terms as president.

Surviving are two sons, Robert B. of Stamford, Conn., and Fred N. of Rockville, Md.; a daughter, Jean K. Gogolin, wife of Jack Jones of Wilton, Conn.; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Edna Miller of Myerstown and Selma Wenger of Palmyra.