King, Edith 1882-1962

KING, BARBER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/30/2006 at 16:46:09

Mrs. King, Well Known Lucas Resident, Laid To Rest Tuesday

Funeral services for Mrs. Fred King, of Lucas, S.D., who passed away last Friday at the Burke Community hospital after an extended illness, were held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Union Baptist Church, in Burke. The pastor, the Rev. Joe M. Baer, officiated.

Hymns were sung by a mixed quartette composed of Mildred Clausen, Viola Halverson, Reuben Halverson, and Adam Krieger. Sally Wiedeman played the piano accompaniments.

The casketbearers were Eugene Scott, Bob Crakes, Jr., Wesley Smerling, Oral Swift, Wesley Nelson and Wesley Stinton. Interment took place in Graceland cemetery at Burke under the direction of the Clausen Funeral Home.

Nora Edith Barber was born in Kansas on Dec. 26, 1882, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Z. P. Barber, and passed away Feb. 23, 1962, in the Burke Community Memorial hospital at the age of 79 years, 1 month, and 28 days. Death followed a series of strokes, the first of which was suffered on Dec. 1, 1961. Since that time she had been confined to the Burke Community Memorial hospital and at the home of Mrs. Maude Miller at Burke.

As a child, 8 years old, she traveled with her parents from Kansas to Akron, Iowa, in a covered wagon. There she attended school and graduated from high school in Akron in 1904. She taught school in Plymouth County, Iowa, for six years.

On Jan. 1, 1910, she was united in marriage to Fred E. King at Elk Point, S. Dak. Two daughters were born to this union. They farmed in the Akron, Iowa, community until March 1925, when they moved to Gregory County, S. Dak., on a farm which they purchased near Lucas.

Mrs. King was an active member of the United Brethren Church of Adaville, Iowa, and alter attended the Baptist church at Lucas. She worked with several community organizations and was new correspondent for local papers for thirty years.

She is survived by her widower, Fred, and two daughters, Mrs. Joe Davis, of Burke, and Mrs. Elmer Smerling of Haysville, Kans.; 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; one brother, Tom Barber, of Yankton; four sisters, Mrs. Grant Smith of Heron Lake, Minn., Mrs. Alex Bartell of Bowman, N. Dak., Mrs. Fred Parke of Troutdale, Ore., and Mrs. Herbert Harms of Lynwood, Calif.