Obituary

CANYON ? Services for Joe Winford King, 79, will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Holley Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Monday in Petersburg Cemetery by Holley Funeral Home of Canyon. Mr. King died Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002, in Amarillo. He was born on June 21, 1923, in Rochester to John Wesley King and Ida Perry. He served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Tangier, a seaplane tender, in the Pacific Theatre during World War II and received four campaign ribbons. He graduated from McMurry and began a 40-year career in education. He was a teacher and coach at high schools in Petersburg, Anton, Lorenzo, Lubbock and McCamey as well as at Sul Ross College. He was principal at Lockney and Tulia high schools and superintendent and athletic director at Nazareth. In 1973, along with his daughter, he was inducted into the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame, the only father and daughter so honored. He also coached tennis at West Texas A&M University in Canyon where his team won the Lone Star Championship and he was named Coach of the Year in 1991. He is a past president of the Tulia Lions Club, was a founder of the Lions Club in Nazareth and was an active member of the Canyon Lions Club. He was a gardener, an avid sports fan and competed in local tennis tournaments into his 70s. Survivors include his wife, Ola Joyce; a son and daughter-in-law, Johnny Wayne King and Diane of Kaufman; two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy Elaine and Gary Daniel White of Salina, Kan., and Kimla Gayle and John Leon Crossno of Raleigh, N.C.; a brother, Oliver King of Plainview; two sisters, Lou DuFour of San Clemente, Calif., and Fanny Carlisle of Kress; and four grandchildren. A sister, Pauline Hewitt, is deceased. The family suggests memorials to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79106.
Plainview Daily Herald - Aug. 11, 2002