Funeral services for Forrest "Bud" King 83 of Blunt SD will be Saturday at 11:00 AM at the school gym in Blunt SD. Rev Bart Bartel officiating. Burial will be in the Blunt Cemetery. A prayer service will be held Friday at 7:00 PM at the Feigum Funeral Home in Pierre. Visitation will be Friday beginning at 5:00 PM at the Feigum Funeral Home. Bud passed away February 2, 2010 at Pierre, SD Ripley Memorial Chapel Gettysburg is in charge of arrangements.


Forrest J. "Bud" King was born September 6, 1926 to Forrest D. and Frances (Lomica) King in Chamberlain, South Dakota. He grew up on a ranch north of Philip, SD and attended rural grade school in Hawkin County. On December 19, 1944 Bud entered the US Army and served until November 9, 1945. Following his discharge he returned to South Dakota and took a job with the railroad at Blunt, SD. He worked for the rail road for only a short time when more or less by accident he found himself working for the Korkow Family in 1947. For the next 51 years he kept the Korkow Trucks rolling down the road. Bud could fix anything with a pliers or screw driver and kept everything running on the ranch. Besides driving truck and doing mechanic work Bud also enjoyed working with the Bucking stock. After he hauled the stock to the rodeo you would find Bud behind the chutes working as a flank man. Bud knew all of the Korkow stock intimately and had a special knack for calmly handling the stock and knowing how to flank them to get them to buck their best. Bud always rooted for the stock, and was responsible for having more world champion cowboys get bucked off than anybody.



On August 28, 1949 Bud married Dona Borden at the Church of Christ in Blunt, SD. They lived and raised their family in Blunt. In 2004 Bud and Dona moved to Hot Springs so that he was closer to his doctors. In 2007 he became a resident of the Castle Manor Care Center in Hot Springs and in January of 2009 Bud and Dona moved to Pierre where he was a resident of the Golden Living Center in Pierre where he resided until the time of his death.



Forrest is survived by wife Dona of Pierre, sons Forrest C. "Buddy" (Lori) King of Blunt, and Edward (Denea) King of Pierre, daughters Enola (Lyle Snyder) King of Rapid City, Jo (Gale) Harkless of Hot Springs, Helen (Gary) Anderson of Blunt, Nyleen Royka of Blunt, Dolores (John) Irvine of Blunt, Kristi "Sammi" (Dean) Haney of Oklahoma City, OK, three brothers Lowell King of Blunt, Bob King of Huron, Garry King of Sheridan, WY, 21 grandchildren, and 32 great grandchildren.



He is preceded in death by his parents, three sisters Delores O'Connor, Mary Ellen Wipf, Marilyn Miller, one brother Chuck King, one son-in-law Mike Royla, one daughter-in-law Cookie King, an infant sister, and one infant grandson.



Casketbearers will be Jim Thompson, Don Korkow, Jim Korkow, Steve Millard, Kenny Millard, Dick Herman, Bob Fuchs, and Dave Ping.



Honorary casketbearers will be All Grand and Great Grand Kids.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to St. Mary's Hospice in Pierre.

A eulogy will be given by Dr. Barry Bender.

Special music will be by Gary Anderson and he will sing "The Old Rugged Cross" and Cindy Neuman will sing "Wind Beneath My Wings" and Special recordings will be "Daddy's Hands" and "Round Up in The Sky"

The pianist will be Jennifer Anderson and Julie Schultz.

The ushers are Swede Larson and Rich Ping.