Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  King, Brown, 1948
Friday, August 4, 2000

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Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                            BROWN KING FUNERAL RITES HELD THURSDAY

  Funeral services for Roy Brown King, 46, World War II veteran, who died in
Legion Hospital Wednesday, were held from the Presbyterian Church Thursday
at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Stanley Hauser, rector of the Sonora Episcopal Church,
officiating.  The Hodges Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.  Interment
was made in the Junction Cemetery.
  King, a native of Kimble County, was born March 6, 1901, the grandson of a
pioneer physician.  He was educated in local and San Antonio schools and served
more than 20 years as engineer with the State Highway Department.  At the out-
break of the war he spent a year working on Trinidad bases as construction 
engineer with a Dallas firm.  He was employed by Beretta Construction Co.,
San Antonio, at the time of his induction into the Army Corps of Engineers, 
August 12, 1942.
  He was discharged with the rank of corporal in December 1943 after spending
8 months in a Kentucky hospital.  He became critically ill in April, 1943, and
never completely recovered from the internal poisoning which caused the illness.
  Survivors include the widow, the former Helen LaVelle; the parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy R. King; two sisters, Mrs. Warren Braley, San Antonio, and Mrs. Marshall
Heap, Junction; and two brothers, Gordon of Dallas and Jack of Junction.
  Pallbearers were Guy Munn, A. C. (Buddy) Hurte, A. W. Browning, Frank Patterson,
Bill Hamer, Seaton Prentice, Clay Maddux, and B. D. Williams.
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