Boone, NC- Mrs. Jean Eaves King, 93, of Boone, died Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at The Foley Center in Blowing Rock. Born November 21, 1930, in Ruston, Louisiana, she was a daughter of the late Otto Jack and Cecil Joy Courtney Eaves and the wife of the late Harold Lyndon King, Sr., with whom they shared 72 years of marriage.

Jean was an active member of Perkinsville Baptist Church where she had taught Sunday School. She had attended nursing school but met Harold and married and she spent her life supporting him in the military and his calling as a funeral director, which brought them to Boone, where he worked for many years at Hampton Funeral Service.

Other than her husband and parents, she is preceded in death by a Daughter-in-law, Janell King; a Brother, Jackie Eaves; Brother and Sister-in-law, James Derwin and Katherine King; Sister-in-law, Dorothy Eaves; Sister-in-law and Husband, Carol Sue and Lennie Dupree and her Parents-in Law, James Daniel and Belle Bazar King.

Jean is survived by her Son, Lynn King of Pine Bluff, AR; Son, Randy King and Wife Clare of Pittsboro; Daughter, Sherrie King of Boone; Brother, John Eaves of Pensacola, FL; Grandson, Daniel King of Galveston, TX; Grandson, Brandon Stephens of Boone; Grandson, Ryan King of NYC, NY; Granddaughter, Allison King Na and husband Tae Na of Nashville, TN; Granddaughter, Erin King of Denver, CO; and her first born Great-Grandson, John Raymond Na of Nashville, TN.

A service to celebrate Jean's life will be held at 3:00 PM Saturday, February 3, 2024, in the Chapel of Hampton Funeral Service. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 2:00 until 3:00 PM.

Burial will be at a later date next to her husband in the Simsboro Cemetery in Simsboro, LA.

Flowers are appreciated or memorials may be made to one's favorite charity.

Online condolences may be sent to the King Family at www.hamptonfuneralnc.com.

Hampton Funeral Service of Boone is in charge of the arrangements.