WELL KNOWN WAYNE COUNTY RESIDENT KING QUEEN PASSES AWAY

LONG TIME FORMER WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOL EDUCATOR & OFFICIAL, BUSINESS OPERATOR, WAS HIGHLY REGARDED AND BELOVED RESIDENT THROUGHOUT THE TOWN OF WAYNE AND AREA BEYOND, LEAVES A LONG LASTING POSITIVE PRESENCE IN HIS COMMUNITY

JANUARY 23, 2020 written by WADE QUEEN

KING QUEEN WAS ONE OF THE FINEST MEN I EVER KNEW. IN FACT NO ONE HIGHER OTHER THAN MY GRANDFATHER; AND THEY BOTH WOULD SAY THE OTHER ONE WAS THE BETTER MAN.

KING QUEEN WAS MY GRANDFATHER’S YOUNGEST BROTHER (AS WELL AS YOUNGEST SIBLING). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN (AN EIGHTH WAS STILLBORN)

THE ENTIRE QUEEN FAMILY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER BORDER, AS WELL OF FAMILY INTO OHIO, WATCHED AS KING FOUGHT THESE LAST FEW YEARS BATTLING PANCREATIC CANCER, TOOTH AND NAIL, WITH STERN, STURDY COURAGE THAT MOST PEOPLE COULD NOT DO, AS HE DID, LIVING HIS LIFE, AS NORMAL HE COULD EMBRACING THOSE HE LOVED MOST, ON HIS OWN TWO FEET. UP UNTIL THE VERY END WHEN HE TOOK HIS LAST BREATH.

HIS WIFE TINA, SON BRANDON AND HIS WIFE, WITH THEIR TWO SONS, ARE SHAKEN TO THEIR CORE IN THEIR MOURNING, FOR THEY NOW HAVE LOST SOMEONE WHO MEANT EVERYTHING THAT THEY LOVED FOR SUCH A VERY LONG TIME. SOMEONE WHO IS IRREPLACEABLE.

THE ENTIRE QUEEN FAMILY IS MOURNING, FOR KING WAS THE CONCRETE BEDROCK CORNERSTONE OF THE QUEEN CLAN. HE WAS THE NAVIGATOR IN GATHERING THE WHOLE ENTIRE QUEEN FAMILY TOGETHER SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR, EVERY YEAR, IN LOVE AND CELEBRATION.

KING QUEEN’S FRIENDS AND THOSE WHO KNEW HIM, OR JUST ONLY KNEW OF HIM, ARE MOURNING, FOR THEY HAVE LOST A ONE OF A KIND FRIEND, OR EVEN JUST RESPECT OF HIM, THAT CAN NOT BE REPLACED.

THE TOWN OF WAYNE, WEST VIRGINIA IS MOURNING, FOR IT HAS LOST ONE OF THEIR MOST PROMINENT, ESTEEMED CITIZEN; WHOSE SHOES NO ONE CAN FILL.

KING QUEEN WAS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST MEN I KNEW, BEFOREHAND, AS WE MOURN HIS DEATH, WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE HIM THIS LONG, AS WE ALMOST LOST HIM OVER 15 YEARS AGO, IN A FREAK ACCIDENT ON THE JUNCTURE OF MY GRANDFATHER’S AND BROTHER WILEY’S FARMS, THAT CAME WITHIN LITERALLY, OF AN INCH FROM TAKING HIS LIFE. BUT THE HAND OF DIVINE INTERVENTION CAME DOWN TO SPARE OUR FAMILIES OF A PREMATURE TRAGEDY. AND EVEN THOUGH HE WAS BRUTALLY INJURED, HIS ABSOLUTE TOUGHNESS AND DETERMINATION, A TRAIT OF THE QUEEN FAMILY, DROVE HIM IN SLOW, BUT STEADY ROAD TO RECOVERY.

KING QUEEN WAS THE KINDEST MAN. ONE OF THE TOUGHNESS MEN. ONE OF THE MOST DEVOTED MEN.

KING QUEEN’S DEPARTURE TO THE KINGDOM TO COME, HAS NOT JUST LEFT THE QUEEN FAMILY’S WORLD A LOT DIMMER OF LIGHT. KING QUEEN’S PASSING HAS LEFT THE WORLD A LOT DIMMER.

THE ENTIRE QUEEN FAMILY’S WORLD IN THE NEXT DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS AHEAD MAY BE SEEMING LIKE A DARK PLACE, AND DEPENDING ON FATE OF GOD AND JESUS CHRIST’S PLANS FOR US, IT MAY EVEN GET DARKER.

BUT AS THE SAYING QUOTE OF TRUE COMFORT IS: IT IS ALWAYS DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN.

AND THAT NEW LIGHT OF THE NEW DAWN; WILL SHINE ON US AND ALSO SHINE THE NEW PATH TO GUIDE US ON THE NARROW BUT REDEEMING PATH, TO ONCE MORE, TO REUNITE US WITH AND TO SEE KING QUEEN, AND ALL THE REST OF OUR LOVED ONES, IN THE ETERNAL AFTERWORLD THAT AWAITS FOR THOSE WHO ACCEPT THE PLACE IN THE DESTINY OF HEAVEN OF OUR FATHER GOD ALMIGHTY, AND HIS EVERLASTING RESURRECTION OF THE LAMB, JESUS CHRIST.

KING QUEEN. OUR BELOVED. YES WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN.

TO MY GREAT UNCLE: BY ABBIE WADE QUEEN