Mrs. Virginia Marie Gillespie King, 67, of Memphis, formerly of Covington, died Saturday at Allenbrooke Health Care Center in Memphis after a long illness. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. today at Brownsville Funeral Home with burial in Brownsville Memorial Gardens. She was a member of Mt. Terrace Church of Christ. Mrs. King, the wife of Benjamin F. King, also leaves two sons, Marion O. King and Norman F. King, both of Memphis; two sisters, Mrs. Velma Stoneberger of Memphis and Mrs. Dorothy Smith of Michigan, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. (The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Monday, July 23, 1990)