Joseph Willet King

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.neptunesociety.com/location/tucson-cremation for the King family. Services were held at Christ the King Episcopal church December 17,2018

Interment for family and friends took Place later that day.

Joe died Peacefully on November 28 . Born in Springfield ,Missouri to Charles B King and Evelyn Reiter King. Texas was home for the Majority of his childhood Living in Houston And Dallas ,where he graduated form Highland Park High school .Joe was a proud graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He completed his residency in child and Adolescent Psychiatry, followed by a fellowship in New York City at Hillside Hospital. Joe was a pioneer in the field of adolescent psychiatry, with milestones developments of opening inpatient units at Timber lawn Psychiatric hospital in Dallas and later dual diagnosis units for adolescents at the Psychiatric Institute of Richmond , Virginia where he served as Psychiatrist in Chief and Medical Director. He was Director of child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Shadow Mountain Hospital in Tulsa ,Oklahoma ,worked at Sierra Tucson and Cottonwood hospitals in Tucson, and later for several treatment centers for anorexia and addictive disorders in Wickenburg, Arizona. He held many offices in professional organizations throughout his career, including President of the American Society foe Adolescent Psychiatry, President for local psychiatric societies where he lived, and was a lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Society. Joe was an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, and served at St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Tulsa , Oklahoma. He initiated the Deaconate Program at St Philips Episcopal Church in Tucson , serving there before his final years of service at Christ the king. Joe loved the outdoors, camping , hiking . and fishing with his children when they were younger, and sport fishing in Florida, the Bahamas ,and Alaska with friends and family. He loved to travel with Doris especially to the California wine country and Hawaii with dear friends, enjoyed good food ,and singing. He was especially humbled by the opportunity to sing with the Tucson Masterworks chorale at Carnegie hall in New York city. Joe is Survived by his children Michael king of Washington D.C. Brad King His wife Kathleen, and their children Claire and Maggie, of NorthHampton, Massachusetts, Pamela King of Madison ,Wisconsin, and Tim King, his wife Christine and their children Emily and Evelyn of Birmingham, Alabama. He is also survived by Michael and Brad's mother Doris king, nieces and nephews Chip King and his wife Marti, Michelle King and her husband Larry, and their son Paul of Hamilton ,Ontario ,Canada ,Joe King and his wife, Dody of Kentwood, Michigan ,and his god daughter Ashley Bradford of Dallas Texas.

Joe was much loved and will be missed by many. As Joe often said

" I love and appreciate you, god 's peace".