Nadine King obituary: An accomplished china painter

Mrs. Nadine (Spencer) King, 85, widow of the late Floyd Newman King, passed away at 11:05 a.m. on Sunday, March 15, in the Clarehouse Hospice House, Tulsa, Okla.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 19 in the First Christian Church of Barnsdall. Mr. Leon Martin will be the officiant.  Committal prayers and interment will be directed in the Ethel Reece Cemetery by The Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Home.

Mrs. King will lie in state in the Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Home where friends may call for their visitation until she is removed to the church for final rites on Thursday afternoon.

Mabel Nadine Spencer was born on February 6, 1924 at Barnsdall, Oklahoma.  She was the daughter of the late Charles Spencer and Mabel (Kellar) Spencer.  She was reared and received her education in the Barnsdall Community and was graduated with the Senior Class of 1942 from the Barnsdall High School. She and Floyd Newman King were married on October 23, 1942 and resided in Barnsdall. Nadine worked for the Douglas Aircraft Company in Tulsa for two years, and following Floyd's Honorable Discharge from the U. S. Marines they resided in Pampa, Texas where Floyd was an employee of the Cities Service Company. Floyd preceded her in death on July 19, 1977 in Pampa, Texas and Nadine returned to Oklahoma and the Tulsa community to be near her children.

Nadine was a member of the First Christian Church of Tulsa; and as an accomplished artist, she was a member of the Tulsa China Painters, helped to organize the Oil Capital China Painters, a member of the Oklahoma World Organization of China Painters and a member of the World Organization of China Painting Teachers.

Survivors include two daughters, Karla Harris and her husband Dale of Tulsa, Okla. and  Rhea Sulzycki and her husband Mike of Oklahoma City;   two sons, Layne King of  Tulsa, Oklahoma and Spencer King of Hillsboro, Oregon; eight grandchildren, Brent Harris, Paul Harris, Wesley Harris, Adrienne Sulzycki, Kate England, Alex King, Mitchell King and Lindsey King; 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, M. C. Spencer and wife Betty Ruth of Tulsa and Joe and wife Sally Spencer of Pecan Grove, Texas; a sister, Joyce Stabler and husband Paul of Tulsa; and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Viola Fields of Wynona, Okla.   She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd; brother, Hubert Spencer, who died in WWII at the Battle of the Bulge; a sister and brother-in-law, Mrs. Betty Lou Berry and Jack.

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Love you very much grandmother.