Mrs. King was a daughter of the late Love and Alma Thornton Sanders. She was a 1959 graduate of Johnston County Training School.

The funeral was Saturday, Oct. 10, at South Central Church of Christ in Raleigh. Evangelist Michael L. Dublin officiated.

Surviving are a son, Roger D. King of Baltimore, Md.; two daughters, Sonya Griffin of Ocean Springs, Miss., and Murial C. King of Brooklyn, N.Y.; a brother, William Sanders of Raleigh; three sisters, Anne Merle Sanders and Gaynelle Sanders, both of Manhattan, N.Y., and Angeline Sanders of Fayetteville; and seven grandchildren.