Charles A. King ’50

Charlie died from abdominal cancer June 26, 2005, in Hartford (Conn.) Hospital.

He graduated from Andover Academy in 1945, then served in the Navy. At Princeton, he majored in architecture and belonged to Cottage. After graduation, he married Louine Brown and moved to New Haven to earn another bachelor's degree in architecture, this time at Yale. Charlie delighted in recounting how this became a master's five years later when Yale wrote that for $50 they would send him a master's sheepskin.

Charlie and his fledgling family moved to Hartford in 1953, where he started his own architectural practice in 1955. From house design, including his own, he gradually became a church specialist, though before his retirement in 1996 he became deeply involved with town hall and library design. Not one to hang it up completely after retirement, he created a home office and continued as a church consultant.

Charlie was a talented watercolorist whose work was exhibited widely in the greater Hartford area, and an enthusiastic fly fisherman. His most recent civic service was more than 20 years as a board member of a retirement community.

We extend our sympathy to Louine, his wife of 55 years, his four children, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1950