PULLMAN James Roger King, a zoology professor at Washington State University at Pullman, died of cancer Sunday evening at Pullman Memorial Hospital. He was 64.
The son of James Raymond and Dorothy Donnelley King, he was born March 12, 1927, at Santa Clara, Calif.
He graduated in 1945 from Santa Clara High School and served in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1946.
King graduated in 1950 from San Jose State College in California with a bachelor's degree in zoology.
He married Eleanor Porter June 16, 1950, at Palo Alto, Calif. They came to Pullman the same year and he attended WSU, receiving his master's degree and his doctorate in zoology in 1957.
The Kings moved to Salt Lake City for three years, where he was in the University of Utah zoology department.
They returned to WSU in 1960 and he was a professor of zoology until his death.
King was a member of the American Society of Zoologists, the American Physiological Society, the Ecological Society of America and the Association of Field Ornithologists. He was made an honorary member of the Cooper Ornithological Society in 1975 and was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Ornithologists' Union. He was also made a corresponding fellow of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft in 1988.
Survivors include his wife of Pullman; a son, Robert King of Seattle; two daughters, Julia King of Pullman and Joanna King of Moscow; and a granddaughter.
Private family services will be scheduled at a later date.
The family suggests memorials be sent to Point Reyes Bird Observatory, 4990 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, Calif. 94970.
Kimball Funeral Home at Pullman is in charge of arrangements.
