Forrest “Bud” King, 83, of Blunt, passed away Feb. 2, 2010, in Pierre.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at the school gym in Blunt, with the Rev Bart Bartel officiating. Burial will be in the Blunt Cemetery. A prayer service will be held Friday at 7 p.m. at the Feigum Funeral Home in Pierre. Visitation will be Friday beginning at 5 p.m. at the Feigum Funeral Home.

Ripley Memorial Chapel Gettysburg is in charge of arrangements.
 Forrest J. “Bud” King was born Sept. 6, 1926. to Forrest D. and Frances (Lomica) King in Chamberlain. He grew up on a ranch north of Philip and attended rural grade school in Hawkin County.

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On Dec. 19, 1944, Bud entered the U.S. Army and served until Nov. 9, 1945. Following his discharge he returned to South Dakota and took a job with the railroad at Blunt. He worked for the railroad 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. 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 2009, Bud and Dona Moved to Pierre where he was a resident of the Golden Living Center in Pierre where 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, Okla.; three brothers, Lowell King, of Blunt, Bob King, of Huron, Garry King, of Sheridan, Wyo.; 21 grandchildren;and 32 great-grandchildren.

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

Casket bearers will be Jim Thompson, Don Korkow, Jim Korkow, Steve Millard, Kenny Millard, Dick Herman, Bob Fuchs, and Dave Ping.
Honorary casket bearers will be all grandkids and greatgrandkids.

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, singing “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.