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William Lawrence King of Albuquerque, NM, passed away September 28, 2006. William was a member of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. He was born on February 14, 1930 in Neenah, WI to Sadie and William Joseph King. In 1947, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and enjoyed a distinguished career in law enforcement until his retirement in 1969. In 1970, he began a second career within The Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Over the next 25 years, William worked closely with numerous tribal governments, including the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, the White Mountain Apache Reservation in southern Arizona and the former Joint Use Administrative Offices of the Hopi and Navajo Tribes in northern Arizona. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminology from Northern Arizona University in 1977 and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from The University of New Mexico in 1981. His comprehensive work as a supervisory criminal investigator for the Bureau took him to virtually every Indian reservation in the western United States. William is survived by the love of his live, his wife of 54 years, Margarete; son, William, Jr., and grandson, Christian, of Albuquerque; son, Steven, and family of Redondo Beach, CA; daughter, Karoline, and husband, Curtis Freeman, of Bastrop, TX; and daughter, Constance, and husband, Reed Upton, and step-granddaughter, Alexandra, of Albuquerque. He is also survived by a family stretching from Wisconsin to New York to Germany and Hawaii.
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