Terry died July 3, 2017. He was born in Canada migrating to the Seattle area at age five. Terry graduated from the University of Portland in 1968 and went into the U.S. Air Force where he spent the next 20 years, retiring as a Lt. Colonel.

He began a second career with the state of Washington Dept. of Transportation in 1990 and earned his PhD in Education from Seattle University in 1994.

In 1997 Terry became Unit Manager for the Washington State Emergency Management Division where he led a team that wrote the national model legislation that became Washington state's mutual aid system.

Terry jumped at Cave Junction 1965-68 and was a member of the NSA Board of Directors heading up the Scholarship Program.