Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on Thursday. She was 95.

Her death was announced by her niece, the Rev. Bernice King, in a statement. It did not say where she died.

Ms. Farris, Dr. King’s older sister, supported him politically and personally. She joined him in 1965 for the March for Voting Rights in Alabama and in 1966 for the March Against Fear in Mississippi. She also lent him money so he could buy his engagement ring.

She lived through multiple tragedies over the next few years: the assassination of Dr. King in 1968; the death, by drowning, of her other brother, Alfred Daniel King, known as A.D., in his swimming pool in 1969; and the assassination of her mother, Alberta King, during a church service in 1974.

“I think of the things that I’ve faced in my life, and sometimes I question how I’m still here,” Ms. Farris told CNN in 2008. “I’m the lone survivor in my family.”

Ms. Farris dedicated herself to promoting Dr. King’s legacy. She helped her sister-in-law, Coretta Scott King, establish the King Center, a nonprofit organization that conducts educational programs and supports research related to Dr. King, and she served as its senior vice president and treasurer.

She made herself available on mundane and dramatic occasions to honor her family. She helped pick authentic wallpaper for a museum based in the home where she and her siblings grew up. In 2007, the year after Coretta King died, Ms. Farris took her place conducting a commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Dr. King’s birthday.

In January this year, she was in the pews when President Biden spoke in honor of her brother.

Willie Christine King was born on Sept. 11, 1927, in Atlanta. She was the eldest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Christine Williams King. Martin was born in 1929, and A.D. was born the next year.

She graduated from Spelman College, like her mother and grandmother, in 1948, and earned two master’s degrees in education from Columbia University, in 1950 and 1958. She later returned to Spelman, where she worked as an associate professor of education and the director of a learning resources center for about 50 years. She was often described as the college’s longest-serving faculty member.

In 1960, she married Isaac Newton Farris. The couple had two children, Angela Christine Farris Watkins and Isaac Newton Farris Jr. A list of Ms. Farris’s survivors was not immediately available.

Ms. Farris wrote two children’s books about her brother and in 2009 she wrote a memoir, “Through It All: Reflections on My Life, My Family and My Faith.” She made it her goal to describe what Dr. King was like not as a great man of history, but as a brother.

“They think he simply happened, that he appeared fully formed, without context, ready to change the world,” she wrote in her memoir. “Take it from his big sister, that’s simply not the case.”

The Associated Press contributed reporting.

Alex Traub works on the Obituaries desk and occasionally reports on New York City for other sections of the paper. @alexetraub

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