Warren Everett King, 87

Published 10:07 am Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Warren Everett King, 87, of Carlton passed away on April 17, 2014, from injuries sustained in a car accident in blizzard conditions. He was born on March 31, 1927, in Braham, Minn., to Joseph and Evelyn (Norton) King. Warren graduated from Austin High School in Austin, Minn., in 1944. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard until the end of World War II, making port in the Philippines several times.

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Warren married Doris E. Duffy on Aug.7, 1948, in Austin, Minn., where they lived and had four children. Warren worked at his father’s gas station, the Northern Pacific Railroad, and then Eddy Paper Company, which later became Weyerhaeuser Container Corp. In 1961, he transferred to Cloquet, Minn., to open a new Weyerhaeuser plant, and in 1980 was transferred to the White Bear Lake plant. They lived in Stillwater, Minn., from 1980 until Warren retired from Weyerhaeuser in 1986. They then moved to Carlton, Minn., but spent winters in California and Arizona from 1986 to 2000. They lost their home of 27 years in the flood of 2012 and then moved into the Pineview Apartments in Carlton.

Warren loved game shows, games of chance, cars, motorcycling, bicycling, CB radio, exploring back roads, and visiting his children and grandchildren. The couple enjoyed many vacations in the U.S., sometimes on motorcycle, and also made trips to Hawaii and Japan.

Doris, his wife of almost 65 years, preceded Warren in death on April 23, 2013. He is survived by his children: Sandra (Ned Street) King of Calif.; Gary King of Minn.; Laurel (Tomoko Iwai) King of Hawaii; and Julia (John) Graham of Minn.; grandchildren: David, Rachel, and Katie Graham, all of Minn.; Matthew Kingstreet of Calif.; and Kai and Riku Iwai-King of Hawaii, step grandchildren Jennifer, Jessica, and Joshua Voeltz, all of Minn.;  three great grandchildren and his brother David (Carol) King of Austin, Minn.

The family will receive friends on Sunday, June 1, 2014, from noon until the 1 p.m. memorial service in the Handevidt Funeral Home, 900 Washington Ave., Cloquet. To leave an online condolence for Warren’s family please visit www.handevidtfh.com. Arrangements were made with Handevidt Funeral & Cremation Service, Cloquet, (218) 879-4636.