Dexter King

 Dexter Scott Lord, child of the Fire up. Martin Luther Lord Jr., has passed on from disease at 62

ATLANTA — Dexter Scott Ruler, the more youthful child of the Fire up. Martin Luther Lord Jr. what's more, Coretta Scott Lord, kicked the bucket Monday subsequent to fighting prostate disease.

The Lord Community in Atlanta, which Dexter Ruler filled in as executive, said the 62-year-old child of the social liberties symbol passed on at his home in Malibu, California. His better half, Leah Weber Ruler, said in a proclamation that he passed on "calmly in his rest."

The third of the Lords' four kids, Dexter Ruler was named for the Dexter Road Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his dad filled in as a minister when the Montgomery transport blacklist sent off him to public unmistakable quality following the 1955 capture of Rosa Parks.

Dexter Ruler was only 7 years of age when his dad was killed in April 1968 while supporting striking sterilization laborers in Memphis, Tennessee. In his 2004 journal, "Growing Up Ruler," Dexter Lord reviewed his dad's killing as the finish of a lighthearted youth.

"Since I was seven, I've felt I should be formal," he composed, adding: "Custom, earnestness, certitude — every one of these are troublesome postures to keep up with, regardless of whether you're an individual with wonderful harmony, with all the show life tosses at you."

As a grown-up, Dexter Ruler turned into a lawyer and zeroed in on shepherding his dad's heritage and safeguarding the Lord family's protected innovation. As well as filling in as administrator of the Lord Community, he was likewise leader of the Ruler bequest.

Notwithstanding his work with the Ruler Place, Dexter Lord was known for the striking likeness he bore to his dad. They looked such a lot of the same that the child wound up depicting his well known father in a 2002 television film about Parks.

Coretta Scott Ruler kicked the bucket in 2006, trailed by the Lords' most established kid, Yolanda Ruler, in 2007.

"Words can't communicate the heart break I feel from losing another kin," the Fire up. Bernice A. Ruler, the most youthful of the four, said in an assertion.

His more seasoned sibling, Martin Luther Lord III, said: "The unexpected shock is pulverizing. It is difficult to have the right words at a second like this. We request your requests as of now for the whole Lord family."