Services for the Rev. Grover M. King, 77 of 607 N. 50th St., retired pastor of Hulburt Baptist Church, 611 W. Washington St., will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Harder funeral home, 4217 W. Fond du Lac av. Burial will be in Highland memorial Park. He died of a stroke Thursday in his home. Mr. King became pastor of Hulburt church in 1924 and retired in 1935. Previously he had served the Darien (Wis.), Baptist church for five years and the Albany (Wis.), Baptist church for four years.
He was a founder of the First Baptist church of Oak Creek. Mr. King started a Sunday school for Chinese about 35 years ago in Hulburt church. He was active in the group which now meets at Garfield av. Baptist church up to the time of his death.
Two years after he retired, Mr. King started selling Fuller brushes from door to door. He became a field manager a year later and retained that job until he stopped working in 1952.
Mr. King was a member of the Milwaukee Christian Businessmen's committee and a volunteer USO worker. Ordained atMoody Bible institute, Chicago, in 1911, he was a field secretary in France for the YMCA during World War I.
Survivors are his wife, Dagmar; a daughter, Miss Florence, Milwaukee; four sisters, Mrs. Ada Corbett, Utica, Mich.; Mrs. Eugenia Glison, Shelby, N.C., Mrs. Emily Perry, Raleigh, N.C. and Mrs. Beulah Ferber, Santa Ana, Calif., and a brother Overman, Raleigh, N.C.
Services for the Rev. Grover M. King, 77 of 607 N. 50th St., retired pastor of Hulburt Baptist Church, 611 W. Washington St., will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Harder funeral home, 4217 W. Fond du Lac av. Burial will be in Highland memorial Park. He died of a stroke Thursday in his home. Mr. King became pastor of Hulburt church in 1924 and retired in 1935. Previously he had served the Darien (Wis.), Baptist church for five years and the Albany (Wis.), Baptist church for four years.
He was a founder of the First Baptist church of Oak Creek. Mr. King started a Sunday school for Chinese about 35 years ago in Hulburt church. He was active in the group which now meets at Garfield av. Baptist church up to the time of his death.
Two years after he retired, Mr. King started selling Fuller brushes from door to door. He became a field manager a year later and retained that job until he stopped working in 1952.
Mr. King was a member of the Milwaukee Christian Businessmen's committee and a volunteer USO worker. Ordained atMoody Bible institute, Chicago, in 1911, he was a field secretary in France for the YMCA during World War I.
Survivors are his wife, Dagmar; a daughter, Miss Florence, Milwaukee; four sisters, Mrs. Ada Corbett, Utica, Mich.; Mrs. Eugenia Glison, Shelby, N.C., Mrs. Emily Perry, Raleigh, N.C. and Mrs. Beulah Ferber, Santa Ana, Calif., and a brother Overman, Raleigh, N.C.
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