-- Services Set for C. C. King --
Palouse, Wash -- Memorial services for Carl C. King. 75, first chairman of the Washing ton Soil Conservation Committee, will be Saturday at 11 am. at the Federated Church here. The Rev. Elmer Hiebert and the Rev. Gale O'Neil will officiate
Mr. King died Tuesday at the Whitman Community Hospital in Colfax, Wash.
Born Aug. 16, 1895 in Davenport, Wash, he attended the Davenport schools and graduated from Washington State University in 1920 with a major in soils. He was a member of the WSU basketball, football and track teams and was on the 1916 football team which defeated Brown University in the Rose Bowl. He attended the 40th and 50th-year reunions in Pasadena, Calif. and received the WSU grey "W" honors at the event. He was senior class president in college and spoke for the class at its 50th-year reunion last year.
He served in the veterinary corps in World War I.
After graduating from college, he farmed in Canada for five years. He married Anna Scott in Ritzville, Wash, in 1924. They returned to Washington to farm the Dr. J. L. Gilleland place near Pullman, Wash, until 1934 when they moved to the Four Mile Creek District northwest of Pullman.
Mr. King helped organize Soil Conservation Committee districts throughout the state. For this he received the Washington State Banker's Service Award for Soil and Water Conservation in both 1954 and 1962.
He was an honorary member of the Washington State Association of Soil Conservation District Supervisors, an honorary member of the Colfax Kiwanis Club, a past master of both the Whelan and Parvin Granges and an active member of the Federated Church at Palouse.
Survivors include his wife, at home; two daughters, Mrs. James C. (Beryl) Kinzer, Pullman, and Mrs. Richard A. (Norma) Stejar, Spokane; one sister, Mrs. Vivian Kurtz, Los Angeles, and nine grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the Palouse Scholarship Fund or the Federated Church, Palouse. The Kimball Funeral Home. Palouse, handled the arrangements.
Spokane Daily Chronicle (Spokane, WA) 10 Jun 1971, Thu
-- Services Set for C. C. King --
Palouse, Wash -- Memorial services for Carl C. King. 75, first chairman of the Washing ton Soil Conservation Committee, will be Saturday at 11 am. at the Federated Church here. The Rev. Elmer Hiebert and the Rev. Gale O'Neil will officiate
Mr. King died Tuesday at the Whitman Community Hospital in Colfax, Wash.
Born Aug. 16, 1895 in Davenport, Wash, he attended the Davenport schools and graduated from Washington State University in 1920 with a major in soils. He was a member of the WSU basketball, football and track teams and was on the 1916 football team which defeated Brown University in the Rose Bowl. He attended the 40th and 50th-year reunions in Pasadena, Calif. and received the WSU grey "W" honors at the event. He was senior class president in college and spoke for the class at its 50th-year reunion last year.
He served in the veterinary corps in World War I.
After graduating from college, he farmed in Canada for five years. He married Anna Scott in Ritzville, Wash, in 1924. They returned to Washington to farm the Dr. J. L. Gilleland place near Pullman, Wash, until 1934 when they moved to the Four Mile Creek District northwest of Pullman.
Mr. King helped organize Soil Conservation Committee districts throughout the state. For this he received the Washington State Banker's Service Award for Soil and Water Conservation in both 1954 and 1962.
He was an honorary member of the Washington State Association of Soil Conservation District Supervisors, an honorary member of the Colfax Kiwanis Club, a past master of both the Whelan and Parvin Granges and an active member of the Federated Church at Palouse.
Survivors include his wife, at home; two daughters, Mrs. James C. (Beryl) Kinzer, Pullman, and Mrs. Richard A. (Norma) Stejar, Spokane; one sister, Mrs. Vivian Kurtz, Los Angeles, and nine grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the Palouse Scholarship Fund or the Federated Church, Palouse. The Kimball Funeral Home. Palouse, handled the arrangements.
Spokane Daily Chronicle (Spokane, WA) 10 Jun 1971, Thu
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