ELBERTON, GA - Jerry King, owner of King's Monument Co., Inc., was recently elected president of the Elberton Granite Association, Inc. for the 2003-2004 year. Other new officers named by the organization's Board of Trustees include Calvin Hill of Hill Crest Granite Co., Inc., vice president, and Carolyn Miller of Lexington Blue Granite Co., Inc., treasure. The action followed the E. G. A annual meeting in June where three new trustees were elected by the membership to serve three-year terms.
King has spent most of his adult life in the granite industry. He and his wife, Trudy, and son, Marty, operate Kings's Monumental Co., which has steadily grown since the King couple founded it in 1984. King began working in the granite industry after he was discharged from the U. S. Army after service in Vietnam. He served in various management positions with some of Elberton's largest quarrying and monumental firms before founding his company.