Elmer Cecil King 1919-2012

KING HARM NELSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/16/2012 at 11:34:24

Sioux City Journal
April 04, 2012

Elmer Cecil King, 92, of Larkspur, Colo., formerly of Correctionville, passed away March 31, 2012, in Colorado Springs, Colo., with a room full of family members at his side.

Services will be today at the Little Log Church in Palmer Lake, Colo., with military rites. Private burial attended by family members will be Thursday in Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver.

He was born on Sept. 26, 1919, on a farm near Moville, Woodbury County, Iowa, to Jay Cecil King and Freda Catrina Johanna Harm King. He was the second of seven children, including brothers, Earl, Emmett, Everett, Ernie, and Ellis, and sister, Elaine. He graduated from Correctionville (Iowa) High School in 1937. During his high school years, he and his brothers delivered the Sioux City Journal in Correctionville. He began his military career (lasting just over 21 years) in about 1940. He worked as a programmer and systems analyst in the early days of computers and achieved the highest enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force as a chief master sergeant.

He loved to camp and was an avid fisherman. After retiring, he and his wife, Dorothy, spent many shared days camping and/or fishing at many places in Colorado and visited out-of-state fishing holes wherever and whenever they traveled. Elmer and Dorothy especially enjoyed attending Harm-King family reunions in Correctionville. From the first reunion in 2003, they never missed one.

He was a volunteer with the Cub and Boy Scouts, the Douglas County (Colo.) Fair Board, the Little Log Church (Palmer Lake, Colo.) board of trustees, and the Palmer Lake Yule Log Society. He was a 4-H dog training leader in Douglas and El Paso counties.

Elmer is survived by his wife, Dorothy Nelson King; son, Jim King of Post Falls, Idaho; daughters, Laura (Tom) Van Dusen of Como, Colo., Janice (Lon) Ayers of Flagstaff, Ariz., and Vicki McPherson of Larkspur, Colo.; his grandchildren, Seth and Matt Van Dusen, Mindy (Chris) Luebbe, Andrea (Leo) McPherson-Mendes and Amanda and Erin McPherson; his great-grandchildren, Connor, Gianna and Colbin Van Dusen and Cheyenne Luebbe; his brothers, Everett (Ruby) King of Correctionville and Ellis (Alice) King of Sioux City; and his sisters-in-law, Elsie King of Correctionville and Mildred King of Guthrie Center, Iowa.

The family suggests donations to the Little Log Church in Palmer Lake, the New Covenant Christian Church in Larkspur, or the Palmer Divide Blanket Brigade in Palmer Lake.