WORLD WAR II PVT. CO. A ENGINEER TRAINING BATTALION
Funeral services for Roy Brown King, 46, World War II veteran, who died in Legion Hospital Wednesday, were held from the Presbyterian Church Thursdayat 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.
Funeral services for Roy Brown King, 46, World War II veteran, who died in Legion Hospital Wednesday, were held from the Presbyterian Church Thursdayat 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.
WORLD WAR II PVT. CO. A ENGINEER TRAINING BATTALION
Funeral services for Roy Brown King, 46, World War II veteran, who died in Legion Hospital Wednesday, were held from the Presbyterian Church Thursdayat 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.
Funeral services for Roy Brown King, 46, World War II veteran, who died in Legion Hospital Wednesday, were held from the Presbyterian Church Thursdayat 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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