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Clara (Winslow) King

1878 - 1965

 

 

Rites Held For Mrs. King 86

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      Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in John Knox Presbyterian church, Wabasso, for Mrs. Clara King, 86, who died Wednesday afternoon at Sunwood nursing home, Redwood Falls, MN., where she had been a resident two years. Rev. Robert Chalmers conducted the services and interment was in Redwood Falls cemetery .
     Clara Winslow was born September 29, 1878 in Maine, a daughter of Ezra and Frances (Reed) King. She came to Wilder with her parents when six month old. She was married to Hebert King in Windom in 1893 and they lived on a farm west of Redwood Falls where Mr. King died in 1935. She left the farm in 1940 and moved to Seaforth.
     Survivors include her children, Edwin and Clyde King of Seaforth; Mrs. Lawrence (Elizabeth) Edwards of Whitetail, Montana.; James L King of Wabasso; George E. King of Echo; Mrs. Henry (Lizzie) Olson of Missoula, Montana; and Howard B. King of Plentywood, Montana; 17 grandchildren, four great grandchildren; a brother, Ezra Winslow of Wabasso, and a sister Stella Miller, of Puyallup, Washington. Three sons preceded her in death.

 

reference: The Redwood Gazette, Redwood Falls, 5 January 1965, Page 7