William R. King, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Bill King
Date: September 26, 2006


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OBITUARY - WILLIAM R. KING 
WILLIAM R. (BILL) KING, 47, DIES SUDDENLY IN PINEVILLE BANK 
Pineville - April 24, 1945 William R. (Bill) King, aged 47 years, an employee 
of the Pineville Post Office, died suddenly at 10 o'clock this morning, April 
24, 1945, at the Guraranty Bank branch office in Pineville. He is survived by 
his wife, Gertrude Dillon King, and three young sons, Carroll, Billy and Clyde 
Wayne. Remains will be at Hixson Brothers Funeral Home, and services will be 
held at the First Baptist Church in Pineville at 4 P.M., Wednesday, April 25, 
Rev. John M. Wright, officiating. Interment will be in the Greenwood Memorial 
Park in Pineville. 

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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK Alexandria, Louisiana - Tuesday, April 24, 1945 
....HEADLINE OF APRIL 24, 1945 ISSUE 
"BERLIN NEARLY ENCIRCLED" 
THIRD ARMY 105 MILES FROM HITLER 
AMERICAN, RUSSIAN JUNCTION EXPECTED 
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Note: William R. ('Willie') King was born 13 December 1898 in Calhoun County, 
Arkansas, son of Arthur Edward King and Sallie Harris. He attended schools in 
Hampton, Arkansas and completed his schooling in 1920 from The Third District 
Arkansas Agricultural School in Magnolia, AR following brief service in the army 
at the close of World War I. He later joined his father in Selma, Grant Parish, 
Louisiana where they entered into the mercantile business as 'Ed King & Son', 
selling dry goods and groceries to the families of Selma. He joined the Pineville, 
Louisiana Post Office in 1932 as the 'Village Letter Carrier', and was working 
at the same post office as 'chief clerk' at the time of his death in 1945.