Ex-L.A. Official Foster King Dies at 98
Foster R. King, retired chief deputy city clerk, who as a youth working in Los Angeles’ Licensing Division personally knew each of the 3,000 men and women in Los Angeles’ business community early in the century, is dead.
King was 98 when he died July 29 at a Culver City convalescent home.
He went to work for the city as a tax office clerk in 1912, served with Gen. John Pershing’s headquarters company in France during World War I and returned to an office in the Licensing Division.
In an interview on his retirement in 1958, he said that he and two fellow workers knew each of the 3,000 applicants who renewed their business licenses each year.
He has no immediate survivors.
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