Ralph Goodwin King was born in Hobart Township, Minnesota on 8 Sep 1902 to Charlotte and Rutherford Hayes King. He married Pearl Eleanor Cole on 29 Nov 1929 in Frazee, Minnesota. Together Ralph and Pearl had one son, George, and one daughter, Marlys.
Ralph was the bulk oil agent for the Standard Oil Company in Frazee from 1 October 1930 until his retirement on 1 Dec 1959 at which time the agency was taken over by his son George. At the time of his death in 1965, he was the night supervisor and worked maintenance at a local turkey plant.
Ralph was active in his church, the First Methodist Church of Frazee and Masonic Lodge 241. He also served on the Frazee school board for 18 years. He was a kindly man who would always help friends and family. During World War II he once collected 49,000 of used rubber tires for the war effort. Another time during a snowstorm, a local doctor needed to go out to a farm to deliver a baby and George took the doctor out to the the farm in his gas truck to successfully deliver the premature baby.
Ralph passed away on 20 Oct 1965 in Becker County, Minnesota and is interred at Lakeside Cemetery in Frazee.
--Dragonfly
Ralph was the bulk oil agent for the Standard Oil Company in Frazee from 1 October 1930 until his retirement on 1 Dec 1959 at which time the agency was taken over by his son George. At the time of his death in 1965, he was the night supervisor and worked maintenance at a local turkey plant.
Ralph was active in his church, the First Methodist Church of Frazee and Masonic Lodge 241. He also served on the Frazee school board for 18 years. He was a kindly man who would always help friends and family. During World War II he once collected 49,000 of used rubber tires for the war effort. Another time during a snowstorm, a local doctor needed to go out to a farm to deliver a baby and George took the doctor out to the the farm in his gas truck to successfully deliver the premature baby.
Ralph passed away on 20 Oct 1965 in Becker County, Minnesota and is interred at Lakeside Cemetery in Frazee.
--Dragonfly
Ralph Goodwin King was born in Hobart Township, Minnesota on 8 Sep 1902 to Charlotte and Rutherford Hayes King. He married Pearl Eleanor Cole on 29 Nov 1929 in Frazee, Minnesota. Together Ralph and Pearl had one son, George, and one daughter, Marlys.
Ralph was the bulk oil agent for the Standard Oil Company in Frazee from 1 October 1930 until his retirement on 1 Dec 1959 at which time the agency was taken over by his son George. At the time of his death in 1965, he was the night supervisor and worked maintenance at a local turkey plant.
Ralph was active in his church, the First Methodist Church of Frazee and Masonic Lodge 241. He also served on the Frazee school board for 18 years. He was a kindly man who would always help friends and family. During World War II he once collected 49,000 of used rubber tires for the war effort. Another time during a snowstorm, a local doctor needed to go out to a farm to deliver a baby and George took the doctor out to the the farm in his gas truck to successfully deliver the premature baby.
Ralph passed away on 20 Oct 1965 in Becker County, Minnesota and is interred at Lakeside Cemetery in Frazee.
--Dragonfly
Ralph was the bulk oil agent for the Standard Oil Company in Frazee from 1 October 1930 until his retirement on 1 Dec 1959 at which time the agency was taken over by his son George. At the time of his death in 1965, he was the night supervisor and worked maintenance at a local turkey plant.
Ralph was active in his church, the First Methodist Church of Frazee and Masonic Lodge 241. He also served on the Frazee school board for 18 years. He was a kindly man who would always help friends and family. During World War II he once collected 49,000 of used rubber tires for the war effort. Another time during a snowstorm, a local doctor needed to go out to a farm to deliver a baby and George took the doctor out to the the farm in his gas truck to successfully deliver the premature baby.
Ralph passed away on 20 Oct 1965 in Becker County, Minnesota and is interred at Lakeside Cemetery in Frazee.
--Dragonfly
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