James "Jim" King

To Roger and Jennifer. I loved Jim and Penny so much. I was one of Jim´s Ph.D. Students and we have stayed in touch all these years. We were supposed to meet for lunch in October, but he suddenly didn´t respond to my emails. Now I know why. I met you both when you were little children, and I just wanted you to know how profoundly your father influenced my life and how much I will miss him. A better, wiser, kinder man does not exist.

Jim was one of my senior professors when I was a graduate student in Psychology 1969-1975 at UofA. He was a true scholar, steady, kind and dependable. Although I am way past the age at which most of my colleagues have retired, I am still working and have relied on Jim's counsel all these years. Rest in peace, Jim.

To Jim´s family, I was saddened to read that Jim had passed away and I extend my condolences to his children and grandchildren. Jim and I were classmates (along with 900+ others) and graduated in 1955 from Tucson High School. A group of us THS ´55 Badgers meet monthly for lunch and Jim was a regular attendee. I enjoyed my lunch conversations with Jim. As his obituary mentions, he had a variety of interests. At a recent lunch we discussed his reading tutoring, the Syrian family he helped and...