Doing his Tavares heritage proud
Keith Oliver My grandfather, Jack W. King, Jr., was the train station manager from 1926 to 1956, he said.
A listener was then treated to passed-down tales of Model T Fords rumbling down nothing but dirt roads, and his grandmother s creative entrepreneurial bent which so often gave way to her even stronger open-heartedness to those who needed a hand up.
And, more than anything, was the example and insistence from both grandmother and mother on church attendance, prayer and reading the Bible. It held King in good stead when the family left Tavares for Miami and hopscotched across Florida, following his highway patrolman father, Jack W. King, Sr., to his next posting.