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GEORGE KING Obituary

GEORGE L. KING

Rural Martensdale

George L. King, 87, died Wednesday at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m., Tuesday, December 29, 2009, at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Winterset. Burial will be in the Fairview Cemetery at Madison County.

George had been a teacher for ten years and a minister for 30 years before his retirement in 1989.

George is survived by his wife, Genive King of Prole; nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends.

Visitation will be Monday from 2 to 7 p.m., at McCalley-Collins Funeral Home in Winterset with family receiving friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Memorials given to the family will be directed to Winterset Seventh Day Adventist Church.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by the Des Moines Register on Dec. 27, 2009.

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