Date of birth: 04 Sep 1913
Date of death: 07 Apr 1999

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Burial Information

Section 09 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0361-06
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US ARMY
Rank: COL - Colonel
War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II & KOREA - Bronze Star Medal & 2 OLC

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Notes

Obituary
Col. Isaac Read King
Col. Isaac Read King, 85, of Lexington died Wednesday, April 7, 1999 of heart failure at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.

Col. King was born in Nutbush, Haywood County, Tennessee. He attended Mississippi State University. He served in World War II and two tours of duty in Korea. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the John Stephens Fellowship Class.

Services were held April 9 from First United Methodist Church of Lexington with interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Pallbearers were his grandsons, Read Kerr, Kenneth Freshwater, Daniel Kerr, Mark Hedl and O. K. Bryant IV. Honorary pallbearers were members of his Sunday School Class and Dr. Charles Campbell.

He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Elizabeth Beall King, his sister, Malissa Temple and his brother, Louis King. Survivors include three daughters, Betty Forbes, of Wilmette, Illinois, Sarah Kerr of Athens, Tennessee, and Tallulah Bryant of Slidell, Louisiana; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

The Holmes County Herald
Lexington, MS
April 15, 1999

Family Relations of LtC Issac Read King, Jr.

Parents:
Isaac Read King, Sr.
Annie Louise Alison King

Siblings:
Issac Read King, Jr.
Carol Ann King Cochran
Dailey Alison King
Louis Alison King
Malissa King Temple

Spouse:
Elizabeth Watkins Beall King

Research Notes
Rank taken from father's obituary.

Military Notes
Obituary states he served... two tours of duty in Korea.

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