Jean Lucille Mitchell, 19152002 (aged 87 years)

Name
Jean Lucille /Mitchell/
Given names
Jean Lucille
Surname
Mitchell
Family with parents
father
18761958
Birth: November 29, 1876 33 27 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota
Death: October 18, 1958Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota
mother
18761959
Birth: November 3, 1876Getty Township, Stearns County, Minnesota
Death: October 18, 1959Getty Township, Stearns County, Minnesota
Marriage Marriage
elder brother
19101992
Birth: April 6, 1910 33 33 Bowman, Bowman County, North Dakota
Death: May 17, 1992Benton County, Minnesota
2 years
elder sister
19122001
Birth: April 24, 1912 35 35 Minnesota
Death: June 12, 2001Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota
2 years
elder brother
19141977
Birth: June 26, 1914 37 37 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota
Death: June 11, 1977Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota
9 months
herself
19152002
Birth: April 2, 1915 38 38 Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota
Death: December 1, 2002Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Family with Clement Anthony King
husband
19121993
Birth: March 26, 1912Morton, Renville County, Minnesota
Death: January 6, 1993Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
herself
19152002
Birth: April 2, 1915 38 38 Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota
Death: December 1, 2002Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
daughter
Private
daughter
Private
daughter
Private
daughter
Private
son
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son
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son
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Shared note

Jean L. King
Sioux Falls - Jean King, 86, died Sunday, December i, 2002, at Avera Prince of Peace Retirement Center of complications from a fall one month ago.

Jean Mitchell was born April 2, I9I6 in Brooten, MN. A graduate of St. Cloud Teachers' College (St. Cloud State University) she taught in Perham, MN. In I939, she married Clement A. King. They lived in many states while working with Allis Chalmers including California, North Dakota. Minnesota, Nebraska and then settling in Sioux Falls in I964. In I98I, Jean and her husband started King Toys making handmade doll furniture. Their business ended in I993 when Clem died, Jean continued making doll quilts to sell at the General Store in Minnetonka, MN, and craft sales around the Midwest with her last quilt selling two days before her death.

She has been a member of St. Lambert's parish since I965, and was extremely active in fund raising for Catholic education. She was a member of Catholic Daughters of America and was one of the runners up for the I976 South Dakota Mother of the Year.

She is survived by four daughters: Kathleen (Paul) Usery, Denver, CO, Virginia (Ron) Otterness, Eden Prairie, MN, Norma (Gary) Riedmann, Carroll, IA, and Mary (O.A. Mike) Nelson, Sioux Falls, SD; three sons: Tom (loAnne) King, Lawrence, KS, Kevin (Sheila) King, Des Moines, IA. and David (Becky) King. Lubbock, TX; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clem, sister, Margaret, and brothers James and Tom.

Funeral services will begin at l:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 4. at Avera Prince of Peace Nursing Home Chapel with burial in St. Michael Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Heritage Funeral Home with a Catholic Daughters of America Rosary at 6:30 p.m. followed by a Christian Wake Service at 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

Argus-Leader
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
03 Dec 2002, Tue ò Page 12