NAME: EDWARD ALBERT (EDDIE) KING, AGE 85, A L0NGTIME TUPELO, OKLAHOMA RESIDENT.

BORN: FEBRUARY 24, 1914, AT TUPELO, OKLAHOMA TO THOMAS EDWARD ED AND LURA (CROSSER) KING. PASSED AWAY: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1999, AT VALLEY VIEW REGIONAL HOSPITAL IN ADA, OKLAHOMA. AGE: 85 YEARS 6 MONTHS AND 9 DAYS. EDUCATION: GRADUATED FROM TUPELO HIGH SCHOOL IN 1930 AND GRADUATED FROM OKLAHOMA A & M COLLEGE AT STILLWATER IN 1936 WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER OF SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY. MARRIED: JO ANDERSON ON DECEMBER 18, 1938, AT HOBBS, NM. OCCUPATION: RANCHER AND AUTO DEALERSHIP OWNER. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF SAINT PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN COALGATE, OK. EDDIE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN TUPELO AND LATER OPERATED AN AUTO DEALERSHIP FOR SOME 31 YEARS IN PAWHUSKA, OKLAHOMA, FROM WHICH HE RETIRED IN DECEMBER OF 1979. HE THEN SPENT HIS REMAINING YEARS IN TUPELO. SURVIVED BY WIFE: JO KING OF THEIR HOME IN TUPELO, OK. CHILDREN: KAY SMITH AND HUSBAND JIM OF TUPELO, OK. ED A. KING AND WIFE EASTER OF STONEWALL, OK. LURA (LU) KING OF ARKANSAS CITY, KS . GRANDCHILDREN: STEPHEN HORN AND WIFE SANDRA OF DALLAS, TX. BRIAN HORN AND WIFE LISA OF DALLAS, TX. KRISTEN SHIELDS AND HUSBAND BRYAN OF VAN BUREN, AR. MARK EDWARD KING OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: TRICIA KING, TAYLOR HORN, TIMOTHY EDWARD SHIELDS, AND MIRANDA ROSE HORN. NIECES AND NEPHEWS: JOHN EDWARD KING, MARY NELL WINHAM, KAY BUTLER, AND SHIRLEY SMITH. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: ED AND LURA KING. SISTER: RUTH BRITTON. BROTHERS: FRANK, PRICE, AND FLOYD KING.

DATE OF SERVICES: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1999, AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ TUPELO, OK. INTERMENT: BYRDS PRAIRIE CEMETERY ~ TUPELO, OK. OFFICIATING: TONY RANDALL. CASKETBEARERS: JIM COX, LARRY FERGUSON, BOB HYATT, DANNY BULLARD, CHARLEY DAVIS.