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Julia ''Jill'' King, nee Kurysh, of Frankfort, formerly of Olympia Fields and Harvey, passed May 26, 2002. She was born January 23, 1926 in Chicago. She was a homemaker and previously worked at the Star-Tribune Publication in Harvey, and was later a nurse at St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights for 10 years. She is survived buy her husband, Donald; son, Roger (Jean) King of Minnesota; daughter, Diana (Allan) McGowan of New York; sisters, Mary Hastings of Arizona, and Olga Kampbell of Ohio; four grandchildren, John (Stacey), Michael, Thomas King and Laura McGowan; two great-grandchildren, Payton and Bennett King; and many nieces and nephews. Visitation Wednesday 2 to 9 p.m. at Kerr-Parzygnot Funeral Home, 540 Dixie Hwy., Chicago Heights, 60411. A 10 a.m. Mass is Thurssday at Infant Jesus of Prague Church, Flossmoor, IL. Interment at Assumption Cemetery, Glenwood, IL. Memorials may be made to Ingalls Hspital in Harvey. 708-754-0016.

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Published by Chicago Tribune on May 28, 2002.

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Holly Riordan

May 28, 2002

I'm so sorry for your loss. I will always remember Jill as being the most beautiful and gracious of my parents' friends. She was always kind and I felt at home around her, even as a very small child. My love to your family.



Holly Beck Riordan

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