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San Francisco Board of Education offers condolences for Mister King, longtime Saint Francis Square resident
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The San Francisco Board of Education offered condolences for Mister King, who helped fund the Saint Francis Square Cooperative housing development and lived there from its 1963 opening until his death; family members spoke and the meeting adjourned.
The San Francisco Board of Education on Monday offered condolences for Mister King, a longtime resident of the Saint Francis Square Cooperative and a figure in local efforts to support racially integrated housing.
Speaking on behalf of the board, an unnamed representative said King married Judy Huggins in 1951 and that the interracial couple “endured much racism,” including being forced to move nine times in their first year of marriage after landlords learned of their marriage. The representative said King helped the International Longshore and Warehouse Union fund the Saint Francis Square Cooperative, which opened in 1963 in the Fillmore neighborhood next to Rosa Parks Elementary School, and that he lived there from the day it opened until his death.
"This development was seen as a national model for racially integrated housing for working families," the representative said. The representative also listed survivors: daughters Rebecca King Morrow and Carolyn King Samo of San Francisco; son Leroy King Junior of El Sobrante; five grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. The speaker noted that King’s wife, identified in the transcript as Judy King, died in February.
Executive vice president Susan Solomon offered brief remarks on behalf of the family, saying, "Leroy King was my uncle... he really was, the father of us all in so many ways. So thank you very much. We'll let Carolyn know." The board adjourned the meeting shortly afterward.
No votes or policy actions were recorded in the condolence remarks.
