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Alice I. King Gainsville, GA QCWA # 32777 Chapter 32 |
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Alice Ida King, age 95, of Gainesville, GA passed away January 22, 2019. Mrs. King was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 21, 1923 to Wilber S. and Mildred Ida Quick Olin. She moved to Lanier Village Estates in Gainesville GA in 2012 after residing in Largo FL for 38 years.
Alice worked for The National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC, as a homemaker, and as a substitute high school teacher for Prince Georges County Public Schools in Maryland before moving to Largo FL. She was recognized in 2012 by Pinellas County, Florida for her volunteer service in Emergency Management as the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) Public Information Officer (PIO), a SKYWARN Operator, and lead county Navy-Marine Corps Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) Operator for over 18 years.
Mrs King was preceded in death by her husband John Leo King Jr, her parents, Wilber S. Olin and Mildred Ida Quick Olin and her brother Wilber C. Olin and his wife, Helen Freer Olin. She is survived by her children, Jean King Herndon and her husband, Philip Martin Herndon of Canton, GA and Mark Robert King and his wife, Theresa Bjorson King of Hampton, VA; grandchildren, Clifford John Edmisten and Heather Burns Edmisten of Norcross, GA; Brian Scott King and Annie Hughes King of Johnstown, PA and Sarah King Wiggins and LaMont'e Wiggins of Hampton, VA; great-grandchildren, Nathaniel Scott King, Andrew Michael King, Rebekah Cheyenne King and Isaac Leo Wiggins; and nieces Annetta Olin Clark, Barbara Olin Crouch, and Marie Olin Eckert.
A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 1PM in the McGill-Scarborough Memorial Chapel of Lanier Village Estates, 4000 Village View Drive, Gainesville GA 30506.
Interment will be held at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC.
The family suggests Memorial donations be made to the ARRL Foundation, Mary Lou Brown Scholarship Fund in Memory/Honor of AI4K Alice King.
I just happened across my Mom's Silent Key Announcement on your Quarter Century website, https://www.qcwa.org/ai4k-32777-sk.htm and I am writing to express my personal appreciation for the Quarter Century Wireless Association remembering her.
Of course, I could not share all of her radio legacy in her obituary but my brother, Mark King (KD4SVN) and his wife, Terri King (KD4UFH), and their children, Brian King (N4DDJ - our Dad's, Jack King, old Call) and Sarah King Wiggins (N4DDK - Mom's old Call) and her husband, LaMonte, WERE able to annotate a large world map with corresponding QSL cards for all the countries she contacted plus red flags on every country from which she had broadcast for the reception after her Celebration of Life Memorial Service. The hardest part of making that display was deciding which card, in her collection of thousands, to use for each country. We also produced a slide show which included pictures of her:
(a) showing off the 80 lb. tarpon she caught off the coast of Panama in the 1950's
(b) singing at Carnegie Hall
(c) working on a Habitat for Humanity House
(d) riding in my sidecar in 2005 and on the back of my trike motorcycle on her 88th birthday in 2011
(e) attending Opening and Closing Ceremonies, 12 days of events at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta including the final rounds of the Womens Gymnastics and the Mens Basketball in which America won Team GOLD, and the Paralympics opening day.
(f) teaching Amateur Radio Classes,
(g) participating in a variety of ARRL Field Days, Conventions and local competition sites with Dad, John (Jack) King, and
(h) participating in YL Conventions and a variety of DXpeditions, including those to the Fijis, Dry Tortugas, etc. shared with Mary Lou Brown (NM7N) and other YLs
Here is my hint to all Hams who might consider throwing out all those QSL cards, "Worked All" Certificates, ARES and RACES Certificates, etc. so their "kids" won't have to do so after they are gone: DON'T
From my perspective, it's not THAT hard to throw things out. It's difficult to share memories of parents. lives with friends and future members of the family if all those "memory joggers" are no longer available.
Respectfully,
Jean King Herndon
