Evangelist M. George King, Jr., born April 18, 1933, died Feb. 27, 2013 after
a career of street-level ministerial work to the denizens of "stressed-out Yuba-
Sutter." King, who delighted congregants and unsettled skeptics, was variously
called a prophet of God, Marysville's messenger, or just Crazy George-a
questionable term to those who thought he was the sanest man in town.

His memorial services are set for 2 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Lipp and
Sullivan Funeral Home, 629 D Street, Marysville. A foreign war veteran, he
will be interred at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, Dixon, at a date to
be announced.

King moved to the Mid-Valley in the 1980s. From his base at the Marysville
Post Office, he would conduct security patrols, bless buildings and heal anyone
willing to SLOW DOWN AND LISTEN. King's style bore the distinct stamp
of his military service in the Air Force during the Korean War.

His clothes were tattered from block-by-block spiritual combat, but through
his last days, he gave a crisp salute and spoke with the wits of a man with a
high-bright-normal intelligence rating.

King is also said to have smashed demons Special Forces-style, but his soldier's
courage may have been most apparent in quiet moments between his bouts with
evil, when he would summon "the still small voice of God."

"He was one of Marysville's Angels," said a friend who now lives in the desert
southwest. "I felt it when he'd pray. He'd put his heart and soul into it."