The Columbus Herald
Columbus, Indiana
September 3, 1982; Page 6
Jennings Publisher Burlin King, 75, Dies
NORTH VERNON --- Burlin King, 75, of 416 Jennings, printer and publisher of two weekly Jennings County newspapers the last 28 years, died Aug. 27 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis of infections following a year of surgery and chemotherapy for cancer.
Surviving with his wife, the former Viola Tierney, are three daughters, Susan KIng of Madison Wis., Barbara King of Lynn, Mass., and Madelon King of Cambridge Mass.; and four sisters, Virginia King of Washington, D. C., Lillian Spencer of Texas, Lucille Brei and Ellen Shively of Minnesota.
King also was an active golfing member of the Muscatatuck Country Club at North Vernon and instigated the Hoosier State Press Club's annual golf tournament.
Born Oct 24, 1907, at Paola, Kan., King was the son of newspaper publisher Howard C. King who moved his family frequently. His mother was the late Lillian Blue King. He completed high school in Corvallis, Ore. Working in a paper mill while going to college, he was graduated in 1932 from Oregon State University with a degree in chemical engineering.
He was associated with his father and his brother, Roy KIng, in publishing weekly newspapers in the Midwest until the World War II when he was commissioned a captain in the Army Chemical Corps.
After the war, he joined his father and brother in publishing the Clay County News at Sutton, Neb., until buying the North Vernon Sun and Plain Dealer newspapers from C. C. Klingner in 1954.
Columbus, Indiana
September 3, 1982; Page 6
Jennings Publisher Burlin King, 75, Dies
NORTH VERNON --- Burlin King, 75, of 416 Jennings, printer and publisher of two weekly Jennings County newspapers the last 28 years, died Aug. 27 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis of infections following a year of surgery and chemotherapy for cancer.
Surviving with his wife, the former Viola Tierney, are three daughters, Susan KIng of Madison Wis., Barbara King of Lynn, Mass., and Madelon King of Cambridge Mass.; and four sisters, Virginia King of Washington, D. C., Lillian Spencer of Texas, Lucille Brei and Ellen Shively of Minnesota.
King also was an active golfing member of the Muscatatuck Country Club at North Vernon and instigated the Hoosier State Press Club's annual golf tournament.
Born Oct 24, 1907, at Paola, Kan., King was the son of newspaper publisher Howard C. King who moved his family frequently. His mother was the late Lillian Blue King. He completed high school in Corvallis, Ore. Working in a paper mill while going to college, he was graduated in 1932 from Oregon State University with a degree in chemical engineering.
He was associated with his father and his brother, Roy KIng, in publishing weekly newspapers in the Midwest until the World War II when he was commissioned a captain in the Army Chemical Corps.
After the war, he joined his father and brother in publishing the Clay County News at Sutton, Neb., until buying the North Vernon Sun and Plain Dealer newspapers from C. C. Klingner in 1954.
The Columbus Herald
Columbus, Indiana
September 3, 1982; Page 6
Jennings Publisher Burlin King, 75, Dies
NORTH VERNON --- Burlin King, 75, of 416 Jennings, printer and publisher of two weekly Jennings County newspapers the last 28 years, died Aug. 27 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis of infections following a year of surgery and chemotherapy for cancer.
Surviving with his wife, the former Viola Tierney, are three daughters, Susan KIng of Madison Wis., Barbara King of Lynn, Mass., and Madelon King of Cambridge Mass.; and four sisters, Virginia King of Washington, D. C., Lillian Spencer of Texas, Lucille Brei and Ellen Shively of Minnesota.
King also was an active golfing member of the Muscatatuck Country Club at North Vernon and instigated the Hoosier State Press Club's annual golf tournament.
Born Oct 24, 1907, at Paola, Kan., King was the son of newspaper publisher Howard C. King who moved his family frequently. His mother was the late Lillian Blue King. He completed high school in Corvallis, Ore. Working in a paper mill while going to college, he was graduated in 1932 from Oregon State University with a degree in chemical engineering.
He was associated with his father and his brother, Roy KIng, in publishing weekly newspapers in the Midwest until the World War II when he was commissioned a captain in the Army Chemical Corps.
After the war, he joined his father and brother in publishing the Clay County News at Sutton, Neb., until buying the North Vernon Sun and Plain Dealer newspapers from C. C. Klingner in 1954.
Columbus, Indiana
September 3, 1982; Page 6
Jennings Publisher Burlin King, 75, Dies
NORTH VERNON --- Burlin King, 75, of 416 Jennings, printer and publisher of two weekly Jennings County newspapers the last 28 years, died Aug. 27 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis of infections following a year of surgery and chemotherapy for cancer.
Surviving with his wife, the former Viola Tierney, are three daughters, Susan KIng of Madison Wis., Barbara King of Lynn, Mass., and Madelon King of Cambridge Mass.; and four sisters, Virginia King of Washington, D. C., Lillian Spencer of Texas, Lucille Brei and Ellen Shively of Minnesota.
King also was an active golfing member of the Muscatatuck Country Club at North Vernon and instigated the Hoosier State Press Club's annual golf tournament.
Born Oct 24, 1907, at Paola, Kan., King was the son of newspaper publisher Howard C. King who moved his family frequently. His mother was the late Lillian Blue King. He completed high school in Corvallis, Ore. Working in a paper mill while going to college, he was graduated in 1932 from Oregon State University with a degree in chemical engineering.
He was associated with his father and his brother, Roy KIng, in publishing weekly newspapers in the Midwest until the World War II when he was commissioned a captain in the Army Chemical Corps.
After the war, he joined his father and brother in publishing the Clay County News at Sutton, Neb., until buying the North Vernon Sun and Plain Dealer newspapers from C. C. Klingner in 1954.
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