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James C. King

Santa Rosa, California

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Longtime high school horticulture teacher, avid gardener and rose aficionado James C. "Jim" King died Sept. 20, 2014. He was 94.

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Jim was known to all as a kind approachable teacher with a sincere authentic magnetic personality that cannot be overstated.I knew Jim through my father, Martin, during his time as a member of the Santa Rosa Men's Garden Club functions. My father had been a vegetable gardener for years.

When he became a member of the Santa Rosa Men's Garden Club hIs relationship with Jim influenced him to learn the love of cultivating and growing roses. Jim's skill and knowledge of horticulture...

As I'm helping get a new FFA chapter going for my son my thoughts go to Mr. King. Forever I will be grateful that he cared about all of his students enough to ask life questions.

The garden club world lost a source of knowledge generously shared with everyone in the passing of Jim King. We shall miss him!
Julie A West
2011-13 President
California Garden Clubs, Inc.

Mr. King was my father's ag teacher in 1950 at SRHS and my ag teacher at Piner in 1978. He was a good teacher with a firm grasp on how to handle kids. I liked him a lot.

I remember Jim from Elsie Allen FFA (my daughter as FFA Sentinel) and from Santa Rosa First United Methodist Church. Jim was one of the best. Sherry Bradford