{"id":7280,"date":"2025-04-16T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:30:30","slug":"elizabeth-l-betty-king-86-of-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/obits\/7280-elizabeth-l-betty-king-86-of-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth L. &#8220;Betty&#8221; King (86) of Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Elizabeth L. \u201cBetty\u201d King, age 86, of Newton, Illinois, passed away at 9:30 AM &#8211; Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at Reflections Memory Care in Savoy, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11:00 AM \u2013 Thursday, April 24, 2025, at Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Newton, Illinois, with Father Pawel Luczak, celebrating mass. The burial will be in the Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Newton, Illinois. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 AM before the mass in church. Arrangements are under the care of the Meyer Funeral Home in Newton, Illinois. The obituary can be viewed, and condolences left at www.meyerfh.com.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth L. \u201cBetty\u201d was born on October 5, 1938, in Newton, Illinois, the daughter of F. Harold and Melba Rose (Kaufmann) Graham. She married Donald Davis \u201cDon\u201d King on September 4, 1960, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Newton, Illinois. He preceded her in death on November 10, 2021. Betty graduated from Newton Community High School with the class of 1956. She was an officer at People\u2019s State Bank and retired after many years of service. Betty was a member of Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Newton, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Betty is survived by: Sister-in-law \u2013 Mary Ann Graham; Nephews \u2013 Dr. Eric (Nicole) Graham and Chad (Meredith) Graham; Nieces \u2013 Linda Huth and Carol Hunsaker.<\/p>\n<p>Betty was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brother Donald Graham, brothers-in-law John David King and Robert Davis King, and her father and mother-in-law Will and Mabel King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betty died the morning of Tuesday, April 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elizabeth L. &quot;Betty&quot; 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