FOX: Two of TV legend Larry King’s grown children have died within weeks of each other, Fox News has confirmed.
King’s son, Andy King, 65, died within the last few weeks and his only daughter Chaia King, 51, lost her battle with lung cancer Thursday, the New York Post reported.
King, 86, adopted Andy in 1962 after he married ex-wife Alene Akins. Chaia was born in 1969.
King also has three other sons: Larry King Jr. (with ex-wife Annette Kaye); and Cannon and Chance King (with ex-wife Shawn King), according to People. more
Damn. That’s rough. That family is going thru hell
Sincere condolences.
I can’t imagine.
Larry may the Lord give you peace and comfort in your time of sorrow, it is always so sad to lose a child. 🕊️❤️🙏
I know my Mom was never the same after my brother passed away. 😢
Wait a minute; Larry King was married to Shawn King?????
Too soon?
My grandfather had 5 children with his 1st wife. After she died he married my grandmother and had five more children. He lost two of the first five just 10 days apart. One was four years old and fell into a ditch and drowned. I forget what happened to the other one.
Loosing two children within 10 days, I cannot imagine the emotions.
…God Bless and strenghten that family, and may they have the comfort of the Lord’s Blessed Assurance that those children are home with Him at this time, and that Mr. King may one day be reunited with them at His feet.
It doesn’t matter how old they are, they’re still your children. My 21 year old is still the baby in my arms at the hospital, the toddler I had to fight to strap in the child seat, the child I taught to ride a bike, the clay hand on my chest of drawers, the cartoon charaters he invented for my wife and I, the little boy who learned to build and play in my back yard, the teenager that won his place on the high school ball team, the new driver I taught to recover from skids on the snowy parking lot of an abandoned mall, the clear-eyed young man with the steady gaze accepting his diploma at his graduation.
He will always be my son, no matter what he does or how old either of us get, and I will hug him like a 5 year old whenever he comes home and we will talk about his thrills and spills just as we always have when we’re together, or maybe just sit and watch something quietly next to each other, just as we did with Samurai Jack and Pokemon back in the day.
Once, when he was just an infant, I held him in my arms while an anastetic was applied for the first time in the first of many surgeries, and he went limp, completely limp, in my arms, as though all life had fled.
The Lord kept me through that to do what I had to do, and carried him through all that safely, snatching him from death many times.
But if I live to be a hundred, I will NEVER forget the sickening feeling of holding my son’s inanimate, flaccid body in my arms.
It was almost too much to bear when it was planned and had a hope of reversal.
I can’t imagine what it would feel like if it were FINAL.
And ONE would seem unbearable, so TWO would seem DEVESTATING.
…it is very hard to comfort one in such straights, but the Bible tells us what God expects us to do.
Keep praying.
Job lost ALL of his children at once, along with everything else in his life, but while he mourned and rent his clothes, he STILL would not turn from the Lord.
Death will happen, and it doesn’t have to happen in order.
We should be prayed up to accept it.
And do what we can so our children are prepared if their time comes, too.
“18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.”
Job 1:18-22
…Life is a gift of God, we did not earn our children’s lives from Him, but were entrusted with them by him for a time that He appoints. As He gives them life, so may He choose when to withdraw it, and it is pointless and vain to rail against Him when He does so, as it was never ours to begin with.
All we can do is thank Him for our precious time together.
And pray that He saves us and that they are saved by Him, that we may be together again and forever in His light and be glad when again we meet indeed.
For in THAT day, we shall never lose them again.
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Revelation 21:4
Life is a gift. The lives of others that touch ours, even more so.
We should honor them with prayer and thanksgiving, and use this to draw closer to those we still dwell with, and to Him that we may all dwell together WITH him by and by.
Pray for the King family in their hour of need.
Pray too for two families I know more personally, which I cannot name here as I have not asked them, as there are two I know that just in the last two weeks have lost an adult child, and two adult childen I know that have lost both their parents in the same two awful weeks.
Pray for these, and for and all those that have lost a child of any age or a parent however old, that they may find solace in Him.
For no other can bring it.
God Bless,
SNS
SNS
Beautiful and most appropriate scripture and call to prayers, especially the prayer to give thanks to Abba for putting those people in our lives. Thank you.
Thank you PJ, but whatever’s good in there is His, I’m just still trying to process a lot of things and His word is helping, and I keep looking for the words to help others through this, which is harder with our church still COVID closed as we mourn the death of a beloved member of the congregation as well.
Lots to pray about, and I’m still falling short, with myself and with my own family. I thank you and the iOTW community that some here, like yourself, know how to pray as well, as prayers are needed.
And I still have you in my prayers as well, PJ, I know you’re still battling the demon of cancer with His help, and I thank God that He carries you through those and leaves you well enough to look in on we rascals here from time to time. It was cancer carried off my friend at church, and I would not have it have another victory in any, so I keep all here fighting it in prayer as well.
I know you all have a time here, too, but I don’t think I’m alone in asking the Lord if it can be just a bit longer, but no longer than desired. Let’s not be stupid about it, we all WANT to return to our Lord SOMETIME…
God Bless,
SNS