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The King Clan

All photographs on this page, unless noted otherwise, are by Okey L. King.

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21st Century Photos of the King Clan

.....The first two photos were taken on my graddaughter Maria LeAnn's birthday. Most foflks call her Mia. In these photographs, Jonathan is beginning his first year of playing football vor the Alderson Chiefs. The third photograph is taken inhis second year of football. He turned out to be quite a football player. .....

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.....This next series of photgraphs were taken in August, 2005 at the home of sister and Brother-in-law Eugene and Imelda "Midge" Wolfe. Their home is on Aarons Fork about six miles west of Elkview, West Virginia. We were enjoyning a mini King Reunion.

.....This is Betty Joy King Spurlock born October 14, 1928 on Fletcher Avenue in Dunbar, West Virinia. She was first married to Olin Johnson who is now deceased. Betty is a six year survivor of colon cancer. Like my mother, Betty is always busy cooking or cleaning

.....This is William "Bill" Spurlock. He and Betty have been married quite a few years now, but I don't recall just how many. His first wife passed away. Bill is descended from folks from Monroe, Summers, and Boune Counties. Both Bill and Bettt are devout Christians.

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.....This is my wife Carolyn Ann Grimes. She is a 13 year survivor of breast cancer. Carolyn is a devoted GNAS. That is a fancy CNA with a lot of extra training. She is probably the best i n the state, and she is loved by those she takes care of. She was born July 31, 1945.

..................................... .....This is Eugen Clay Wolfe. He is retired from Sherman Williams but works for H & R Block.

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.....This is Imerlda June King Wolfe. She was born October 3, 1934 at our family home on the hill at Roxalana in Dunbar, West Virginia. She was the first Red-headed grandchild that my Grandmother King had. Imelda and Eugene have retired to his parents home at Aarons Fork.

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.....This is Jonathan Daniel King. He was born Frebruary 10, 1995. He is a student at Alederson Elementy school. He is a fine baseball and football player. He enjoys going to Camp Meeting evvery year at Dublin, Virginia. He is an acomplished hunter and can track dear and tell the gender of a deer by smell with the best of them. He can tell you what the deer is by the smell and the tracks. He has surpassed most adult hunters.

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.....This is me, Okey L. King. I am the founder and creator of this site. I am a International Pentecostal Holiness Minister who is old enough to retire. I was born September 30, 1940 at our family home in Roxalana.

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This is my daughter Joy ann King Price. She was born June 13, 1968 at Springhill, West Virginia. She is a department head at a retail store in Hinton.

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.....This Maria LeAnn Price. She was born July, 2000. She is a first grade student at Alderson Elementry School.

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.....These are the three King Siblings getting up in years. We do not get together to often. In fact, we have not been able to get together since that Day in August 2005.

This is my son Okey L. King III. He was born July 31, 1965. He is a tire and lube manage for Walmart in Mechanicsvill, Virginia. He was not at the reunion.

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.....This is Jon at bat in his first season playing baseball.

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.....This is the Alederson Oriole baseball team. They only lost one game on route to winning the County Championship. The went on to win the section in Allstars, but lost in the regional when some of the parents went on vacation and the team did not have enough players. The man in the upper left is my son-in-law David Price.

.....While the boys were playing baseball, Mia was sliding on the slide. She never paid much attention to the games.

Jonathan on his fancy chopper bike.

....During Camp Meeting 2005, we had to bring Jonathan back home so he could playing the County tournament. On the way back, we stopped at Hanging Rock high atop Peter's Mountain. This is a hawk observiory. It is one of best overlooks in the state. But, the day we were there in 2005, the clouds were on the mountain and their was no view to be seen.

.................................... ......................Jonathan had his hair cut in a mohawk for this past football season.

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.......................................Carolyn on Mother's Day with her angel.

Photo by Okey L. King

This is Jonathan's last little league football photo. It is trimmed with his team's colors.

.....We recently had a tragedy in West Virgina in which a nine year-old boy shot and killed his twelve year-old brother. The obit for the boy said that he was an avid hunter and loved to play football. That obit could have fit Jonathan. Jonathan has been an avid hunter since he was small. I have tried to stress gun saftey the same as it was stressed to me. When hunting close to the house, all guns had to be unloaded before we reached the yard. There is no excuse not to do so. The photo below shows Jon hunting tree rats down in the hollow below our house. The shotgun is mine, I was given the mossberg bolt-action 12 guage for Christmas when I was fifteen.

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.....This photo is of Jon's face after he had bagged his first dear with a bow. He practiced and practieced before he went. He is a perfectionest and only a near perfect shot would do. He had to shoot through a very small hole in the branches to get his deer.

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.....The familiy enjoying a few moments in the spring.

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...................This is Jon's 2008 school football photo.

.....Jon weighs more than I do now. He is palying football this year for the Estern Greenbrier Middle School Knights.

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.....Jon, Carolyn, and I went on a trip with her nursing home group this month to Kingss Dominion. King's Dominion is for young folks. I like the trip we made last year to Dollywood.

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.....Jon wrestled this year for the first time. Because of inexpierence, and wrestling much bigger opponits, he lost 8 out of his first 15 matches. He finished the season by winning 25 and losing 18 including two third place and one 2nd place finish. The season included trips to Huntington and to Parkersburg. You can see the balck eye he received at the Parkersburg tourniment.

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