SACO — Pearl King, 95, formerly of Lucille Street and Wardwell Home, passed away Feb. 10, 2015 at the Evergreen Manor in Saco.
She was born in Saco on June 9, 1918, the daughter of James and Lulu Foster Davis.
She was a graduate of Thornton Academy in 1937.
Pearl worked in the local mills and later for the telephone company.
She was a member of the United Baptist Church of Saco, the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Her interests included genealogy, traveling to cemeteries, knitting, crocheting and growing gladiolas that they supplied to a local florist.
She is predeceased by: her husband, Clayton King in 2000.
She is survived by: two sons, Clayton King Jr. of Farmington, and Forrest King of Scarborough; three daughters, Barbara Hall of Old Orchard Beach, Darlene Frazier of Biddeford, and Betty Johnson of South Portland; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Friends and family may call from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12 at the Dennett, Craig & Pate funeral home, 365 Main St, Saco.
A funeral service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the funeral home.
A spring burial, next to her husband, will be at Riverside cemetery in Hollis.
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