Mrs. Jean Eaves King, 93, of Boone, NC died Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at The Foley Center in Blowing Rock. Jean was born on November 21, 1930, in Ruston, LA and was a daughter of the late Otto Jack and Cecil Joy Courtney Eaves and the wife of the late Harold Lyndon King, Sr., with whom they shared 72 years of marriage.
A Graveside Service for Mrs. Jean Eaves King will be held 2:00 P.M. Saturday, February 10, 2024, at Simsboro City Cemetery in Simsboro, LA under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home in Ruston, LA. Rev. Ron Lowe will officiate the service.
Jean was an active member of Perkinsville Baptist Church where she had taught Sunday School. She had attended nursing school but met Harold and married and she spent her life supporting him in the military and his calling as a funeral director, which brought them to Boone, where he worked for many years at Hampton Funeral Service.
Other than her husband and parents, she is preceded in death by a Daughter-in-law, Janell King; a Brother, Jackie Eaves; Brother and Sister-in-law, James Derwin and Katherine King; Sister-in-law, Dorothy Eaves; Sister-in-law and Husband, Carol Sue and Lennie Dupree and her Parents-in Law, James Daniel and Belle Bazar King.
Jean is survived by her Son, Lynn King of Pine Bluff, AR; Son, Randy King and Wife Clare of Pittsboro; Daughter, Sherrie King of Boone; Brother, John Eaves of Pensacola, FL; Grandson, Daniel King of Galveston, TX; Grandson, Brandon Stephens of Boone; Grandson, Ryan King of NYC, NY; Granddaughter, Allison King Na and husband Tae Na of Nashville, TN; Granddaughter, Erin King of Denver, CO; and her first born Great-Grandson, John Raymond Na of Nashville, TN.
A service to celebrate Jean’s life was held at 3:00 PM Saturday, February 3, 2024, in the Chapel of Hampton Funeral Service of Boone, North Carolina.
Flowers are appreciated or memorials may be made to one’s favorite charity.
