our stories: ATTORNEY EARL KING
A Retiring Fellow? - Part II
Sometimes life just gets in the way
NOVEMBER 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
BY MEL W RHODES
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PHOTOS BY STEVE SCHILLIO
Barbara and Earl King with Pricilla
H
aving escaped stifling poverty and its stigmatization through the military
and associated opportunities, and having earned his law degree, Earl King
moved to Fort Worth to work with the city attorney’s office. Throughout his long
career King has practiced various types of law: securities and land development,
pensions and profit sharing plans, even adoption law. But he also grew his own
businesses and investments.