Sunday, December 31, 2017
ATLANTA, United States (AP) — The brother-in-law of Martin Luther King Jr, and a founding member of The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, has died.
Isaac Newton Farris Sr, who suffered from prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease, died at his Atlanta home on Saturday morning, his daughter Angela Farris-Watkins told The Associated Press. He was 83.
Farris married Christine King in a ceremony performed by Martin Luther King Jr and their brother AD King on August 19, 1960.
“He wasn’t caught up marrying into a prominent family,” Farris-Watkins said by phone. “He was secure in his own right.”
Farris was a successful entrepreneur and founder of Farris Color Visions. He also served a project manager for the construction of The King Center.
“Through all the tragedies and victories he helped build the King Center,” Farris-Watkins said. more
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