Wanda Kaye King

Wanda Kaye King, 56, of Bolivar, left her earthly life on Tuesday afternoon, February 11, 2025, at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville.

She was born in Jackson, TN on Thursday, July 11, 1968 to the late Truman McAlpin and Shirley Ann Howell McAlpin Graves and lived her entire life in Hardeman County.  She was an elementary school teacher at Youth Villages, Dogwood Campus, in Shelby County for 12 years.  Although limited by her health, she was an active, dedicated deacon's wife at Piney Grove Baptist Church, near Silerton, TN, where she also taught Sunday School.  She particularly enjoyed sharing her Christian faith with those around her.  In her leisure time, she loved to sew, paint and love on her grandchildren.

On June 15, 1991, she was married to "Little" Roger King, who survives.  She also leaves her daughter, Rachel Elizabeth Gaffney and husband, Samuel, of Vancleave, MS; her son, Matthew Garrett King of Bolivar; her brother, Jeremy Graves of Jackson; her three grandchildren, Titus Alexander, Ezekiel Dale and Lydia Elise Gaffney; two aunts, Sandra Wright and Glenda Ervin; an uncle, Kenneth Howell; and numerous cousins.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Michael Truman McAlpin; maternal grandparents, James Elbert and Lula Mae Howell; and paternal grandparents, Vestus and Lucy McAlpin.

Memorials may be sent to the American Heart Association (www.heart.org/donate).