Age 71, Lawton - Memorial service will be 2:00 p.m. Monday in the Lawton Heights United Methodist Church with Rev. Charles King, Rev. Patrick D. McPherson, Rev. P.J. Stewart and Rev. Michael R. Bartley, officiating. Mrs. King died November 30 in Lawton. Arrangements are under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. She was born January 20, 1937 in East Orange, New Jersey to Charles Nelson and Eleanor Lydia (Laird) Canse. She grew up in New Jersey and was a graduate of Long Branch High School. She earned her BA in General Education in 1958 from Newark State Teacher's College and her Masters of Arts in Teaching in 1968 from Central State University. She was a retired teacher having taught all grades kindergarten through twelfth grade as well as college level courses. She had taught at Crooked Oak Schools, the University of Tulsa and Tulsa Public Schools. She was a member of the Lawton Heights United Methodist Church. She is survived by her son, Charles King, Lawton; a cousin, Randall McNames and his spouse Victor, Del Mar, California; her adopted sisters, Shirley Burton, Tulsa, Lola Thompson, Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Jean Bauer, Edmond, Oklahoma; many nieces and nephews and her special friends, Spike, Cosette, Max, Sophie, Grace, Izzy and Trinity. Her parents, a son, James Robert King, III, and a cousin, Glenda Jessica McNames, preceded her in death. Memorial contributions may be made to Lawton Heights United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 2876, Lawton OK 73502, the Humane Society of Lawton-Comanche County, P.O. Box 3134, Lawton OK 73502, John 3:16 Mission, P.O. Box 1477, Tulsa, OK 74101-1477 or to The Wesley Center, P.O. Box 1546, Durant OK 74702.