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March 6, 2011

Newcastle woman named Oklahoma Young Mother

NORMAN — Jennifer King of Newcastle has been selected as the 2011 Oklahoma Young Mother by the Oklahoma Association of American Mothers.

King and her husband, Terry, have two children whom Jennifer King home schools. King is the daughter of Steve and Charlotte Adams. 

King actively volunteers with the Boy Scouts of America, the American Cancer Society and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society  and serves as a pharmacy assistant in her church, Snowhill Baptist Church in Tuttle.

King will be recognized at a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. April 4 in the Blue Room of the State Capitol.

She will represent Oklahoma at the American Mothers National Convention in Salt Lake City in April, where a National Young Mother of the Year will be selected. 

To make a donation to assist in King’s travel expenses, make a check payable to Jennifer King, 1st National Bank and Trust Company, account No. 6034763.

For more information, visit AmericanMothers.org or e-mail Sherri Boyd with the Oklahoma Association of American Mothers at bigmom1085@aol.com.

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