Newspaper - "Gordon King Always Remembered..." | Shoreline Times | Obituary
November 5 1997 (Date published)
An obituary for Gordon King (1900 - 1977) titled Gordon King Always Remembered the Veterans, clipped from the Shoreline Times. King was a Madison native remembered for his commitment to recording veterans' gravesites in Madison cemeteries. Today, his maps enable the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars to place American flags on veterans' graves on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. He graduated from Daniel Hand High School in 1937, served as a Navy Seabee in the South Pacific during WWII, served as Madison Town Clerk from 1952 to 1954, and as Madison's postmaster from 1954 until his retirement in 1981. The obituary includes accounts of his diligence and other anecdotes of his life from his daughter, Eileen King, and friends, including a recruit in his mission of historic preservation, Fred Raudat.The newspaper includes two photographs of King: one of King in uniform, from Madison's 1991 Memorial Day ceremony, and another where King poses for a picture kneeling beside a grave in West Side Cemetery.The backside of the clipping contains an opinion article calling for town opinion forums in light of school renovation projects and two letters. One, by Resa W. King (no explicit relationship to Gordon), condemns Madison Selectmen's' disregard of Edwin Bauer's wishes that affordable housing be developed on the land he donated (Bauer Park). The other, by Susan Schumann-Skehan, President of the Garden Club of Madison, promises a 'spectacular spring show.'28 x 42 cm.; folded to 28 x 21 cm.
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