Monsignor James E. King Pastor Emeritus of St. Anthony’s Church, West End, Atlanta, died Tuesday at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost, Conyers. He had been in residence there since leaving an Atlanta hospital.

The Rosary was said at the funeral home yesterday evening, and this morning a Solemn Requiem Mass will be offered at St. Anthony’s by Rev. R. Donald Kiernan, pastor, in the presence of the children of the parish. The Office of the Dead will be recited this evening at 8 p.m. in the church with Msgr. Joseph G. Cassidy, P.A., V.G., presiding.

Tomorrow, Friday, the funeral Mass will be offered by Msgr. Cassidy at 11 a.m.

Pallbearers will include priests who have served at St. Anthony’s parish. They are, Fathers Joseph Beltran, Leonard Mayhew, Daniel McCormick, Jarlath Burke, Dale Freeman, Dennis Dullea, Douglas Edwards, William Hoffman and Michael Morris.

Escort will be members of the Atlanta Lodge B.P.O. Elks No. 78. Msgr. King was chaplain to the fraternal order for some three years.

A native of Troy, N.Y., Msgr. King attended Villanova College and St. Bonaventure University. He was ordained in 1923.

His first priestly service was at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Savannah in 1923 and he came to Atlanta in 1925, becoming administrator of St. Anthony parish. He served in Athens (1926), Valdosta (1937), Milledgeville (1939), Albany (1941), Athens (1943), Warner Robbins (1946) and was appointed pastor of St. Anthony’s in 1952.

Msgr. King was named a Diocesan Consultor in 1957 and promoted to the rank of Domestic Prelate in 1960. He was renamed to the Board of Consultors when Atlanta became an archdiocese in 1962.

Msgr. King, who served all his priestly life in Georgia, was known as a great builder and several of the permanent churches in the northern part of the state were constructed during his various pastorates.

Survivors include nieces, Mrs. Margaret Mary McDonough, Mrs. Kathleen Albarelli; nephews, Mr. Christopher Delaney, Mr. James Delaney, and Mr. Thomas Delaney.