Kay County OK Obit for: Valletta Lucas King 
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Submitted to the archives by: Claudia Thiry: workfarm@wiredok.com 
Date submitted: 2/26/2003 
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Valletta Lucas King

TONKAWA - 

Valletta Lucas King, former Ponca City resident, died Friday, July 5, 1996 
at Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was 84.

The funeral will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the United Methodist Church of 
Tonkawa with Dr. Robert Kanary officiating. Burial will follow in the 
Tonkawa IOOF Cemetery under the direction of McCafferty-Bolick Funeral Home 
in Tonkawa.

Valletta Lucas King was born Nov. 8, 1911 in Tonkawa to Channing Emery and 
Grace (Mounts) Lucas. She was raised and received her education in Tonkawa, 
graduating from Tonkawa High School in 1929. 

After graduation, she continued her education at Northern Oklahoma College, 
taking secretarial classes. She worked locally for a number of years.

She and Walter King were married in 1946. 

She was then employed at Conoco and moved to Ponca City with her husband. 

Valletta was an executive secretary at Conoco until she retired in 1974. 

She moved to Tonkawa in 1990. 

She was an active member of the United Methodist Church of Tonkawa.

Surviving are a daughter; Joanna B. Wright of Billings, Okla. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and two sisters; 
Melva Grace Kunselman and Linabel Michael.

The family requests that memorial contributions be made to the United 
Methodist Church of Tonkawa, in lieu of flowers.
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