Fortified in the last rites of the Catholic faith, in which he was a life long staunch and faithful adherent, Leo J. King answered the last call of his Master, February 23, 1945 at St. Mary's hospital, Rochester, Minnesota.

Born April 29th, 1898, the second child of the family of eleven, to Fred and Catherine King, Pioneers of our community, Leo was reared in our Village and on farms his parents tenanted in this vicinity.

At the age of 21, he accepted the duties of rural mail carrier, which at that time was route 2. Consolidation of the two rural routes in 1933, made him our sole rural carrier. A position he filled with courtesy and efficiency until ill health forced him to take leave last summer.


On August 21, 1923, he was united in Holy Matrimony to Miss Helena Meurer, of Adams, Minn. To their union were born seven children, Raphael, now with the naval forces in the Pacific, Wilfred, substituting for his father on the rural route, Arthur, Rose Mary, Herman Jerome and Barbara Ann, all attending school.

A tribute to his sterling character and his life long, practice of the virtue of "visiting the sick and burying the dead" was manifested by the many who visited him in his long illness and the many spiritual bouquets tendered by his friends and neighbors.

Leo's life measures in the fullest to what constitutes a successful and well spent life even though called in early middle age, "It measures naught what you have acquired in riches and prestige, but rather that the community you have left has profited from you living therein".

Besides his family and parents he leaves to mourn his untimely passing, a sister, Mrs. Mathilda Wynn of Evanston, Ill., Six brothers, Gregory, with the armed forces in the Pacific; Edmund, with the forces in Germany; Roman in a Hospital unit in England; Aloysius of Winona, Minn., and Alfred and Edwin of Austin, Minn. Three sisters died in infancy.

His remains were carried to rest in the Sacred Heart Cemetery.