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Gretchen Helene King, age 85 of Sunset
Drive, Butler, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 1:40
a.m. in the Good Samaritan Hospice at Concordia.
Born May 24, 1922 in Butler,
Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late Ross Everett Curry
and the late Carrie Matilda Painter.
Mrs. King was a homemaker. She had
formerly worked at the Bus Station which is currently the site of
the Tier Parking garage. Mrs. King was a member of North Main Street
Church of God and a member of the Keenagers Sunday school class at
her church. Mrs. King was a member of the U.C.T., the United
Commercial Travelers Auxiliary, a member of the B.U.C.O, the Butler
County Travel Trailer Club, and she formerly volunteered at the VA
hospital. She enjoyed traveling to Florida and riding her scooter.
Mrs. King loved canning fruit, vegetables and meats for 55 years.
Mrs. King is survived by her husband,
William John King whom she married on September 18, 1945, by her son
and his wife, William Rodney and Belinda King of Slippery Rock,
Pennsylvania; her daughter and husband, Mrs. James E. (Brenda Lee)
Grosclaude of Butler, Pennsylvania; three grandsons, Randy
Grosclaude of Butler, Pennsylvania, Colby King of Slippery Rock,
Pennsylvania, Trevor King of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania; one
sister, Mrs. Jean Worrell of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania; and by a
number of nieces and nephews.
Mrs. King was preceded in death by
one brother.
Friends will be received at the
Thompson-Miller Funeral Home, Inc., 124 East North Street, Butler,
Pennsylvania on Monday, March 24, 2008 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services will be held at the Thompson
- Miller Funeral Home, Inc. on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
with Reverend Ken Hall of North Main Street Church Of God
officiating. Interment will follow in Greenlawn Burial Estates.
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A Life Remembered . . .