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Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 20, 2020

Ooltewah attorney George Edward Koontz died on Feb. 17 at the age of 66. Koontz earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law where he was elected Dean’s Advisory Committee and won the American Jurisprudence Award for the highest grade in his class for Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law I and Constitutional Law II graduating 11th in his class. In 1984, he co-founded the Chattanooga law firm of Kennedy, Fulton and Koontz, which ultimately grew to 10 lawyers and is known today as Kennedy, Koontz and Klingler Law Firm. Visitation services will be held Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Heritage Funeral Home, 7454 E. Brainerd Rd., Chattanooga. On Saturday, a celebration of life service will be held at 11 a.m. at Grace Works Church, 6445 Lee Highway, Chattanooga.