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Sign Kenny's Memorial Guestbook Social worker, HIV/AIDS volunteer, actor will be missed From Staff Reports
He is Preceded in death by father, Napoleon B. King; grandmother, Mrs. Bertha B. Green. He is survived by his mother, Sarah O. King; sister, Natalie C. King; nieces and nephews, Brooke, Brianna and Braxton King; devoted aunts, Mable Jones, Cora Holley, Elizbeth Waymon; uncles, William Green, J. Grant Chandler; cousins to include: Jeriesha Waymon, Denora Holley, Signora Smith and others too numerous to name; many special friends, to include, Jerry Frye, Hubert Winton and families according to his obituary published in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. - Dr. Jeannie Gillian, medical psychologist and director of the Hope Center remembers Kenny: Most of you met Kenny in one of his many roles – student at Pellissippi and then at UT in the College of Social Work, actor, singer, and member of the Black Social Workers Association, and so much more. Kenny was a dedicated volunteer at Hope Center – a hope educator and care team member, too. His presentations at the HIV workshop were always memorable. Most of all he inspired everyone he met with his honesty and determination to live his life no matter what. This was his final year at UT. He almost finished technically, but to us, he “graduated” a long time ago and has been doing good deeds all along. - Ed White, local gay activist and fellow Theater Center member remembers Kenny: I thought I should share this for any of you who have been Theatre Central/Theatre Knoxville Downtown patrons over the years, and for others who might have known him. Kenny King was a regular feature of our theatrical productions since the mid-1990's, and a member of the LGBT and PWA communities locally. I have enjoyed acting with him in more productions than I can count at the moment. Any of you who came to see my "updated" production of "Barefoot in the Park" a few years ago will remember him: he played my "husband." The last production he did won him raves this past summer at TKD: "Driving Miss Daisy." I've also been fortunate to have worked with him presenting at Hope Center workshops for several years now. It still a shock to all of us, as sudden as it was. Basically, bacteria from an abscessed tooth migrated into his heart and damaged it severely. He was in surgery all day Friday, but he never recovered.
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Local
social worker Kenny King died Jan. 26 at Fort Sanders Regional Medical
Center. He was a graduate of Austin-East High School and an Air Force
veteran. He was an active member of the Black Social Workers Association
as well as a volunteer at the Hope Center and member of Theater Central.
