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Bayard LeRoy King, died in Albuquerque, January 1, 2008. Born in New York City, May 15, 1922, he attended St. Paul's School in Concord, NH and Harvard College. During WWII, King was an ambulance driver for the American Field Service in North Africa. He later served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in North Africa and France, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Army. After the war, he was a Vice-Consul in the US State Department and became a Foreign Service officer assigned to Baghdad. He assumed similar posts in Australia, China, Mexico, Algeria, France, Latin America, Mali, and Congo/Kinshasa. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Bamako and Kinshasa. He retired in 1975 after a final assignment with the State Department's Office of Intelligence in Washington D.C. He is survived by his wife, Joyce, two children by his first marriage, Alexandra King-Nastase and George Gordon King, currently the director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. Others who survive him include four grandchildren, Nicholas, Charlotte, Harry, and Marina. Service will be held Friday, January 4, 2008 at 6 p.m., St Chad's Episcopal Church. 7171 Tennyson Street, NE, Albuquerque, 87122. Donations may be made in his name to St. Chad's, or the Newport Reading Room, 29 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI, 02840.
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