Wife Of International Boxing Promoter And Call And Post Publisher Don King Dies at 87, The Rev. Al. Sharpton To Attend Funeral Near Cleveland
International Boxing Promoter and Call and Post Newspaper Publisher Don King and his wife Henrietta
From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly. Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog(www.determinerwwekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)
The wife of internationally known boxing promoter Don King, also publisher of the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Oh., has died.
Henrietta King, 87, died late Thursday after complications from cancer and other ailments, a family spokesperson told reporters. King, 79, was with his wife of more than 50 years at a hospice center in South Florida that she was moved to on Tuesday when she passed.
In addition to King, Henrietta King is survived by their three children Eric 57, Carl 52, and Debbie, 47.
"Our condolences to the King family," said Kathy Wray Coleman, editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com.
Coleman, who did freelance writing for the Call and Post for 14 years before venturing out on her own, said she had the pleasure of meeting the gracious Henrietta King at Don King's 68th birthday party at their home Orwell, Oh. At that gathering, she says, were the movers and shakers, including the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network.
Funeral plans were pending. Although Don and Henrietta King resided in Florida for years, she is to be buried near Cleveland, their hometown, where King still owns a home.
Sharpton is expected to attend memorial services in Cleveland along with a host of other prominent national leaders, both Black and White alike.
From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly. Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog(www.determinerwwekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)
The wife of internationally known boxing promoter Don King, also publisher of the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Oh., has died.
Henrietta King, 87, died late Thursday after complications from cancer and other ailments, a family spokesperson told reporters. King, 79, was with his wife of more than 50 years at a hospice center in South Florida that she was moved to on Tuesday when she passed.
In addition to King, Henrietta King is survived by their three children Eric 57, Carl 52, and Debbie, 47.
"Our condolences to the King family," said Kathy Wray Coleman, editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com.
Coleman, who did freelance writing for the Call and Post for 14 years before venturing out on her own, said she had the pleasure of meeting the gracious Henrietta King at Don King's 68th birthday party at their home Orwell, Oh. At that gathering, she says, were the movers and shakers, including the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network.
Funeral plans were pending. Although Don and Henrietta King resided in Florida for years, she is to be buried near Cleveland, their hometown, where King still owns a home.
Sharpton is expected to attend memorial services in Cleveland along with a host of other prominent national leaders, both Black and White alike.
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