Daniel O. King

September 30, 1947 - March 2, 2011

Funeral services for Daniel O. King, 63, will be held Tuesday, 10 a.m. at Faith Baptist Church, Frankfort. Rev. Everett Hawkins will officiate. Burial will be in Camp Nelson National Cemetery, Nicholasville. He died Wednesday at VA medical center of natural causes. A native of Newberry, SC, he was a maintenance engineer with Voith Fabrics, US Army veteran of the Vietnam war, member of American Legion Post #7 and attended Faith Baptist Church. Mr. King was preceded in death by his parents, William Lee and Maudie Mae Hoard King and a sister, Mary Joyce Dietz. Survivors include his wife, Patricia A. King, Frankfort; daughter, Jamie Nicole (Shaun) Stratton, Lawrenceburg; son, Dewayne (Vera) King, Bagdad; three brothers, James Robert King, Charles King and Wallace King, SC; four sisters, Willie Mae Yarbough, SC, Bobby Jean Moates, NC, Edith Owens and Syble Mountjoy, SC. Pallbearers will be Dewayne King, Shaun Stratton, Ron Feeback, Steve Harris, John Morrow and Buddy Munson. Honorary pallbearers will be his seven grandchildren, Megan Simpson, Laxis Nichole Stratton, Cora Nicole Stevens, Kristopher Wallace King, Haley Kathleen Stevens, Hannah Mae King and Shaun Austin Stratton. Visitation will be held Monday 4-8 p.m. at LeCompte-Johnson-Taylor Funeral Home. Guestbook online at ljtfuneralhome.com. Expressions of sympathy may be made to St. Jude’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or Kosair’s Children Hospital, 231 E. Chestnut St., Louisville, KY 40202.