Mary Lou King, age 80 of Clinton, Missouri passed away Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at her home. Funeral services will be 11:00 A.M., Friday, December 7, 2007 at the First Presbyterian Church, Clinton with burial in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton. Family will receive friends from 7:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Thursday at Vansant-Mills Chapel, Clinton. Memorial contributions to the ALS Association or Englewood Cemetery Board and may be left at the funeral home. Condolences may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com. Floral offerings may be sent to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton.

Mary Lou was born in Bowling Green, Missouri. She was a graduate of Stevens College, Columbia. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Clinton, the Clinton Study Club, the Englewood Cemetery Board, the P.E.O. sisterhood, the Clinton Country Club, the Meadowlake Country Club and was a former camp fire leader.

She is survived by her husband, Dr. Richard King of the home; four daughters, Dixie Wolf and husband, Jeff and Carol Tsevis and husband, Larry, all of Kansas City, Missouri, Barbara Slade of Austin, Texas and Kathryn Miller and husband, Bill of Overland Park, Kansas; one sister, Willeyne Clemens of Roanoke, Virginia; five grandchildren, Nick Tsevis, Jeff Tsevis, Charlie McCord, Alexis Slade and Mary McCord; one greatgrandson, Hudson Tsevis; a sister-in-law, Peggy McCune DeLozier; a niece, Nancy Ruth Patterson and two nephews, Jeff McCune and Michael McCune.