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Submitted: 7/11/21 • Approved: 7/12/21 • Last Updated: 7/15/21 • R435926-G0-S3
TECHNICAL FIFTH CLASS US Army
World War II
October 4, 1918-December 30, 1999
Beloved Father
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
FRITCH - Kenneth W. "K.W." King, 81, died Thursday, Dec. 30, 1999.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Darrell Trout officiating. Burial will be in Eastlawn Garden in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton / Chatwell Funeral Directors of Fritch.
Mr. King was born in Durant, Okla., and had lived in the Borger-Fritch area since 1951. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater for 13 months.
Mr. King retired as a field operator for Phillips Petroleum Co. He was a member of the First Assembly of God, the Adobe Walls Masonic Lodge and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local Union No. 351.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Pearl Reda King, in October.
Survivors include two daughters, Reda Gibbs of Fritch and Shirley Connell of Tulsa; a sister, Charlene Lunn of Beatty, Ore.; five grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000)
Contributed on 7/11/21
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