Curtis Dewayne King, 54, of Redding died Thursday, April 10, 2003, at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Born April 15, 1948, in Lakeview, Ore., he moved to Shasta County in 1981 from Loyalton. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and a dispatcher for the U.S. Forest Service for 25 years.