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Friday, November 20, 2009
Clinton To Attend King Funeral
By Journal Staff Report
Former Gov. Bruce King will lie in state at the Capitol today, and former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to attend his funeral Saturday in Moriarty, the family said.
The three-term governor will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The funeral will be in the Moriarty High School gymnasium on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King, one of the late governor's two sons, said Thursday that the only person scheduled to speak at the funeral is the Rev. Dr. Russell C. Lee. He said the King family would welcome any comments from the former president.
"My father always said he wanted a simple ceremony that didn't have a lot of speeches and eulogies," Gary King said. "But in light of the president being there, I think we'll ask him if he wants to say a few words.
"We're very touched that President Clinton wants to come," Gary King added.
Bruce King and Bill Clinton developed a friendship in the 1980s, while King served as governor of New Mexico and Clinton was governor of Arkansas and the two would see each other at national governors' meetings.
Bruce King, who served 12 years as governor and was a former speaker of the New Mexico House and a Santa Fe County commissioner, died Nov. 13. He was 85 and had suffered from heart problems and the loss of his wife of 61 years, Alice King, less than a year earlier.
Alice King died Dec. 7, 2008, and her funeral was also at the Moriarty High School gym. The Kings, who were lifelong residents of the Estancia Valley, lived nearby on their ranch in the Stanley area.
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