Betty Jean King, former Gainesville ISD cook, dies at 87
The Era High School graduate died Oct. 25 at North Texas Medical Center in Gainesville. Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home says service arrangements have yet to be determined.
Betty Jean King of Gainesville, who cooked for Gainesville ISD, died Oct. 25, 2026, at North Texas Medical Center in Gainesville. She was 87, according to an obituary published by Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home.
The funeral home says service arrangements have yet to be determined. Its notice lists no service date or location.
According to the obituary, King was born July 4, 1939, in Muenster, grew up in Myra and graduated from Era High School.
The obituary records that she worked at Safeway and as a cook for the Gainesville school district. In 1978 she married Winford "Don" King, and the obituary says they remained married until his death in 2023.
Geo. J. Carroll & Son is at 602 South Lindsay Street in Gainesville and offers funeral and cremation services, according to its website. The firm's published history dates its start in Gainesville to 1899 and says Bill and Robin Brown bought it in 1975.
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