Christmas Letter
King Family News 2025
King Family at Coeur d'Alene Lake, August 2025
Front row L to R: Andre, Ronda, Art, Vienna
King Family at Christmas 2025
L to R standing: Ryan, Laken, Lucy, Hannah, Taylor, Willa, Rylee, Bethani, Caleb, Sierra, Zayden, Tyler. Seated: Andre, Art, Ronda, Vienna
2025 King Family Update
January: Art and brother Larry travel to Colombia where Larry gets dental work done.
Feb: We (Art and Ronda) proudly watch our grandchildren play basketball in Michigan. Mossen and Cheyenne are Elissa’s two oldest children, now in high school.
March: Ronda spends a weekend in the hospital with a heart rhythm condition called AFIB.
April: We travel to Bozeman, Montana for Art’s high school 50 year reunion at Mt. Ellis Academy.
May: In the last five years, our children and their Rose cousins produced 12 offspring. We host a wonderfully fun cousin reunion with 11 of the 12 and their parents.
June: Ronda undergoes a successful heart ablation procedure in Seattle. Art starts taking GLP-1 medicine with a goal of permanently losing 25 pounds and curing his sleep apnea.
July: We have an awesome family reunion week on Coeur d'Alene Lake.
Sep: We enjoy Ronda’s 50th high school reunion at Upper Columbia Academy.
October: We spend 10 days with Bethani in Colombia along with Art’s brother Larry.
December: The seven children who made it home vote this year the best Christmas in memory.
Children’s Doings
Elissa and David are in Fremont, Michigan. Their four children include two teenagers, both varsity basketball players.
Brenden and Moeko live in Memphis, Tennessee. Brenden is in his second year of law school at the University of Memphis. Moeko is a cancer researcher at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Their daughter 15-month old Oliva-Rose continues to delight.
Bethani’s non-profit “On the Ground International” opens new shelters in Colombia to help the many refugees continuing to walk south from Venezuela.
Sierra and Tyler announced the anticipated April ‘26 arrival of a new child! (gender still secret) They have purchased a large house a few blocks away and commenced a major remodel.
Ian continues to buy wrecked BMWs at auction, fix them up, and sell them.
Hannah and Ryan continue to put down roots in Medford, Oregon. Their two children enlivened their year - Laken is now three and Lucy just turned one.
Taylor lives close by and continues in the construction trades.
Caleb does payroll for a local company while continuing to play in the Walla Walla Symphony (viola).
Willa is in her second year of Physician’s Assistant school in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Rylee teaches cello lessons part time and keeps busy with other gig jobs.
We are so blessed to have so many days with our children and grandchildren this year. The best of times. We wish you each a late but Very Merry Christmas! Love, Ronda and Art King
Favorite Books of 2025
- Art & Bethani - Humankind by Bregman
- Ronda & Hannah - Code Talker by Nez
- Sierra - I’ve Seen the End of You by Warren
- Caleb - Troubled by Henderson