Complex sentence: He was born to Lawrence Bernard Palmer-Ball (1886-1961) and the former Virginia Allemong Vogt (1895-1990), and attended Centre College, later serving in the United States Army in Germany from 1951-1953.
Split into simpler sentences: He was born to Lawrence Bernard Palmer-Ball (1886--1961) and the former Virginia Allemong Vogt (1895--1990), and attended Centre College. He served in the United States Army in Germany from 1951-1953.