IDA LAURA PARKS WAS BORN DECEMBER 18, 1879 IN GOLIAD, TEXAS. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF SOLOMON AND LOUISE PARKS.
AS A YOUNG ADULT IDA HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG LAWYER. HE DEVELOPED TUBERCULOSIS. SOLOMON DID NOT APPROVE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE OF HIS TB. THE LAWYER SUCCUMBED TO HIS ILLNESS AND IDA DECIDED THAT SHE WOULD NEVER MARRY AND LIVED AT THE RANCH IN GOLIAD. SHE RODE HORSES, HAD PETS AND LEARNED TO SHOOT A PISTOL WHILE LIVING AT THE RANCH HOUSE.
AT THE AGE OF 28, WHICH WAS QUITE OLD TO BE STILL SINGLE, MS IDA AND MS EFFIE PETTIT BOARDED A TRAIN FOR WASHINGTON,D.C. TO VISIT A FAMILY FRIEND.
THE TRAIN HAD A LAYOVER IN ORANGE, TEXAS. WHILE AWAITING CONNECTIONS TO D.C. THE 2 LADIES VISITED WITH A FRIEND, MR LINK.
MR LINK SUGGESTED THAT DURING THE WAIT THE LADIES ACCOMPANY HIM TO THE OPERA. HE ARRANGED FOR AN ESCORT FOR THE YOUNG MS IDA. THE ESCORT WAS W.O. HUGGINS AN ATTORNEY IN ORANGE,TEXAS.
AFTER THE OPERA AND MUCH TO THEIR SURPRISE, THE TRAIN HAD DEPARTED WITHOUT THEM. BECAUSE OF THE OPERA, ALL HOTEL ROOMS WERE TAKEN. MR HUGGINS HAD BEEN STAYING AT THE ONLY HOTEL AND OFFERED HIS ROOM TO IDA LAURA. HE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO ROOM WITH A FRIEND.
THE NEXT DAY THE 2 LADIES DEPARTED FOR D.C.
W.O. HUGGINS WAS IMPRESSED WITH IDA AND WOULD SEND LEATHER POSTCARDS TO :
MS IDA
FANNIN, TEXAS
ON FEBRUARY 12, 1908 W.O. HUGGINS AND MS IDA PARKS WERE MARRIED IN THE LIVING ROOM OF THE RANCH HOUSE IN FANNIN,TEXAS.
THEY RESIDED IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. THEY HAD 2 CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN--LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE AND WILLIAM OGBURN HUGGINS JR. THEY RAISED SOL MINCHEN PARKS, IDA'S NEPHEW, FROM THE AGE OF 8. THEY LOVED HIM AS THEIR OWN CHILDREN.
W.O. HUGGINS WAS FOUNDER OF HIS LAW FIRM IN HOUSTON, HUGGINS, KAYSER AND LIDDELL. THE LAW FIRM IS STILL OPERATING TODAY AND HAS 165 ATTORNEYS EMPLOYED. MR HUGGINS, IN LATER YEARS, WAS EDITOR OF THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE FROM 1929 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1934.
IDA LAURA WAS WIDELY KNOWN FOR HER CHARITABLE AND PHILANTHROPIC WORK, NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WAS DEEDING THE LAND AND THE BOYD ROCK HOUSE TO GOLIAD COUNTY FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LATER CONTRIBUTING SUBSTANTIALLY TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRESENT LIBRARY ON THE SAME SITE.
Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas
24 Jan 1961, Tue • Page 1
OBIT: Mrs. Idalaura Huggins of Pioneer Parks Ranching Family Dies at 81
Mrs. Idalaura Parks Huggins, descendant of the pioneer Sol Parks family of Goliad and widow of a Houston attorney who was once editor of the Houston Chronicle, died at 8:45 p. m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at her home here. She had reached her 81st birthday just a week before Christmas.
Mrs. Huggins was widely known here for her charitable and philanthropic work, not the least of which was deeding the land and the old Boyd rock home to the county for a public library and later contributing substantially toward the construction of the present new library on the same site.
She was a daughter of the late Sol Parks, who in passing through Goliad en route from Tennessee to California during the gold rush days, was impressed by that both the rolling grasslands and a girl named Louise Lucas, formerly of New London, Canada. When Parks made his California strike, he returned here, purchased the Parks spread and married Miss Lucas, who became Idalaura's mother.
On Feb. 12, 1908, Idalaura married William O. Huggins and later moved to Houston, but she always maintained residences in both cities and died here in the city of her birth. She was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Gerald Donoghue of Goliad; a son William O. Huggins, Jr. of San Antonio and Goliad, and six grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a nephew, Sol Parks of Goliad.
Private funeral services were conducted at 4:30 p. m. Monday in Forrest Park Cemetery Chapel, Houston, by Mrs. Nezzell Dennis, Christian Science reader, with burial there under direction of the George H. Lewis Funeral Home of Houston. Local arrangements were by the Roy Thomas Funeral Home.
AS A YOUNG ADULT IDA HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG LAWYER. HE DEVELOPED TUBERCULOSIS. SOLOMON DID NOT APPROVE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE OF HIS TB. THE LAWYER SUCCUMBED TO HIS ILLNESS AND IDA DECIDED THAT SHE WOULD NEVER MARRY AND LIVED AT THE RANCH IN GOLIAD. SHE RODE HORSES, HAD PETS AND LEARNED TO SHOOT A PISTOL WHILE LIVING AT THE RANCH HOUSE.
AT THE AGE OF 28, WHICH WAS QUITE OLD TO BE STILL SINGLE, MS IDA AND MS EFFIE PETTIT BOARDED A TRAIN FOR WASHINGTON,D.C. TO VISIT A FAMILY FRIEND.
THE TRAIN HAD A LAYOVER IN ORANGE, TEXAS. WHILE AWAITING CONNECTIONS TO D.C. THE 2 LADIES VISITED WITH A FRIEND, MR LINK.
MR LINK SUGGESTED THAT DURING THE WAIT THE LADIES ACCOMPANY HIM TO THE OPERA. HE ARRANGED FOR AN ESCORT FOR THE YOUNG MS IDA. THE ESCORT WAS W.O. HUGGINS AN ATTORNEY IN ORANGE,TEXAS.
AFTER THE OPERA AND MUCH TO THEIR SURPRISE, THE TRAIN HAD DEPARTED WITHOUT THEM. BECAUSE OF THE OPERA, ALL HOTEL ROOMS WERE TAKEN. MR HUGGINS HAD BEEN STAYING AT THE ONLY HOTEL AND OFFERED HIS ROOM TO IDA LAURA. HE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO ROOM WITH A FRIEND.
THE NEXT DAY THE 2 LADIES DEPARTED FOR D.C.
W.O. HUGGINS WAS IMPRESSED WITH IDA AND WOULD SEND LEATHER POSTCARDS TO :
MS IDA
FANNIN, TEXAS
ON FEBRUARY 12, 1908 W.O. HUGGINS AND MS IDA PARKS WERE MARRIED IN THE LIVING ROOM OF THE RANCH HOUSE IN FANNIN,TEXAS.
THEY RESIDED IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. THEY HAD 2 CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN--LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE AND WILLIAM OGBURN HUGGINS JR. THEY RAISED SOL MINCHEN PARKS, IDA'S NEPHEW, FROM THE AGE OF 8. THEY LOVED HIM AS THEIR OWN CHILDREN.
W.O. HUGGINS WAS FOUNDER OF HIS LAW FIRM IN HOUSTON, HUGGINS, KAYSER AND LIDDELL. THE LAW FIRM IS STILL OPERATING TODAY AND HAS 165 ATTORNEYS EMPLOYED. MR HUGGINS, IN LATER YEARS, WAS EDITOR OF THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE FROM 1929 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1934.
IDA LAURA WAS WIDELY KNOWN FOR HER CHARITABLE AND PHILANTHROPIC WORK, NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WAS DEEDING THE LAND AND THE BOYD ROCK HOUSE TO GOLIAD COUNTY FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LATER CONTRIBUTING SUBSTANTIALLY TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRESENT LIBRARY ON THE SAME SITE.
Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas
24 Jan 1961, Tue • Page 1
OBIT: Mrs. Idalaura Huggins of Pioneer Parks Ranching Family Dies at 81
Mrs. Idalaura Parks Huggins, descendant of the pioneer Sol Parks family of Goliad and widow of a Houston attorney who was once editor of the Houston Chronicle, died at 8:45 p. m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at her home here. She had reached her 81st birthday just a week before Christmas.
Mrs. Huggins was widely known here for her charitable and philanthropic work, not the least of which was deeding the land and the old Boyd rock home to the county for a public library and later contributing substantially toward the construction of the present new library on the same site.
She was a daughter of the late Sol Parks, who in passing through Goliad en route from Tennessee to California during the gold rush days, was impressed by that both the rolling grasslands and a girl named Louise Lucas, formerly of New London, Canada. When Parks made his California strike, he returned here, purchased the Parks spread and married Miss Lucas, who became Idalaura's mother.
On Feb. 12, 1908, Idalaura married William O. Huggins and later moved to Houston, but she always maintained residences in both cities and died here in the city of her birth. She was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Gerald Donoghue of Goliad; a son William O. Huggins, Jr. of San Antonio and Goliad, and six grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a nephew, Sol Parks of Goliad.
Private funeral services were conducted at 4:30 p. m. Monday in Forrest Park Cemetery Chapel, Houston, by Mrs. Nezzell Dennis, Christian Science reader, with burial there under direction of the George H. Lewis Funeral Home of Houston. Local arrangements were by the Roy Thomas Funeral Home.
IDA LAURA PARKS WAS BORN DECEMBER 18, 1879 IN GOLIAD, TEXAS. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF SOLOMON AND LOUISE PARKS.
AS A YOUNG ADULT IDA HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG LAWYER. HE DEVELOPED TUBERCULOSIS. SOLOMON DID NOT APPROVE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE OF HIS TB. THE LAWYER SUCCUMBED TO HIS ILLNESS AND IDA DECIDED THAT SHE WOULD NEVER MARRY AND LIVED AT THE RANCH IN GOLIAD. SHE RODE HORSES, HAD PETS AND LEARNED TO SHOOT A PISTOL WHILE LIVING AT THE RANCH HOUSE.
AT THE AGE OF 28, WHICH WAS QUITE OLD TO BE STILL SINGLE, MS IDA AND MS EFFIE PETTIT BOARDED A TRAIN FOR WASHINGTON,D.C. TO VISIT A FAMILY FRIEND.
THE TRAIN HAD A LAYOVER IN ORANGE, TEXAS. WHILE AWAITING CONNECTIONS TO D.C. THE 2 LADIES VISITED WITH A FRIEND, MR LINK.
MR LINK SUGGESTED THAT DURING THE WAIT THE LADIES ACCOMPANY HIM TO THE OPERA. HE ARRANGED FOR AN ESCORT FOR THE YOUNG MS IDA. THE ESCORT WAS W.O. HUGGINS AN ATTORNEY IN ORANGE,TEXAS.
AFTER THE OPERA AND MUCH TO THEIR SURPRISE, THE TRAIN HAD DEPARTED WITHOUT THEM. BECAUSE OF THE OPERA, ALL HOTEL ROOMS WERE TAKEN. MR HUGGINS HAD BEEN STAYING AT THE ONLY HOTEL AND OFFERED HIS ROOM TO IDA LAURA. HE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO ROOM WITH A FRIEND.
THE NEXT DAY THE 2 LADIES DEPARTED FOR D.C.
W.O. HUGGINS WAS IMPRESSED WITH IDA AND WOULD SEND LEATHER POSTCARDS TO :
MS IDA
FANNIN, TEXAS
ON FEBRUARY 12, 1908 W.O. HUGGINS AND MS IDA PARKS WERE MARRIED IN THE LIVING ROOM OF THE RANCH HOUSE IN FANNIN,TEXAS.
THEY RESIDED IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. THEY HAD 2 CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN--LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE AND WILLIAM OGBURN HUGGINS JR. THEY RAISED SOL MINCHEN PARKS, IDA'S NEPHEW, FROM THE AGE OF 8. THEY LOVED HIM AS THEIR OWN CHILDREN.
W.O. HUGGINS WAS FOUNDER OF HIS LAW FIRM IN HOUSTON, HUGGINS, KAYSER AND LIDDELL. THE LAW FIRM IS STILL OPERATING TODAY AND HAS 165 ATTORNEYS EMPLOYED. MR HUGGINS, IN LATER YEARS, WAS EDITOR OF THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE FROM 1929 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1934.
IDA LAURA WAS WIDELY KNOWN FOR HER CHARITABLE AND PHILANTHROPIC WORK, NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WAS DEEDING THE LAND AND THE BOYD ROCK HOUSE TO GOLIAD COUNTY FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LATER CONTRIBUTING SUBSTANTIALLY TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRESENT LIBRARY ON THE SAME SITE.
Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas
24 Jan 1961, Tue • Page 1
OBIT: Mrs. Idalaura Huggins of Pioneer Parks Ranching Family Dies at 81
Mrs. Idalaura Parks Huggins, descendant of the pioneer Sol Parks family of Goliad and widow of a Houston attorney who was once editor of the Houston Chronicle, died at 8:45 p. m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at her home here. She had reached her 81st birthday just a week before Christmas.
Mrs. Huggins was widely known here for her charitable and philanthropic work, not the least of which was deeding the land and the old Boyd rock home to the county for a public library and later contributing substantially toward the construction of the present new library on the same site.
She was a daughter of the late Sol Parks, who in passing through Goliad en route from Tennessee to California during the gold rush days, was impressed by that both the rolling grasslands and a girl named Louise Lucas, formerly of New London, Canada. When Parks made his California strike, he returned here, purchased the Parks spread and married Miss Lucas, who became Idalaura's mother.
On Feb. 12, 1908, Idalaura married William O. Huggins and later moved to Houston, but she always maintained residences in both cities and died here in the city of her birth. She was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Gerald Donoghue of Goliad; a son William O. Huggins, Jr. of San Antonio and Goliad, and six grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a nephew, Sol Parks of Goliad.
Private funeral services were conducted at 4:30 p. m. Monday in Forrest Park Cemetery Chapel, Houston, by Mrs. Nezzell Dennis, Christian Science reader, with burial there under direction of the George H. Lewis Funeral Home of Houston. Local arrangements were by the Roy Thomas Funeral Home.
AS A YOUNG ADULT IDA HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG LAWYER. HE DEVELOPED TUBERCULOSIS. SOLOMON DID NOT APPROVE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE OF HIS TB. THE LAWYER SUCCUMBED TO HIS ILLNESS AND IDA DECIDED THAT SHE WOULD NEVER MARRY AND LIVED AT THE RANCH IN GOLIAD. SHE RODE HORSES, HAD PETS AND LEARNED TO SHOOT A PISTOL WHILE LIVING AT THE RANCH HOUSE.
AT THE AGE OF 28, WHICH WAS QUITE OLD TO BE STILL SINGLE, MS IDA AND MS EFFIE PETTIT BOARDED A TRAIN FOR WASHINGTON,D.C. TO VISIT A FAMILY FRIEND.
THE TRAIN HAD A LAYOVER IN ORANGE, TEXAS. WHILE AWAITING CONNECTIONS TO D.C. THE 2 LADIES VISITED WITH A FRIEND, MR LINK.
MR LINK SUGGESTED THAT DURING THE WAIT THE LADIES ACCOMPANY HIM TO THE OPERA. HE ARRANGED FOR AN ESCORT FOR THE YOUNG MS IDA. THE ESCORT WAS W.O. HUGGINS AN ATTORNEY IN ORANGE,TEXAS.
AFTER THE OPERA AND MUCH TO THEIR SURPRISE, THE TRAIN HAD DEPARTED WITHOUT THEM. BECAUSE OF THE OPERA, ALL HOTEL ROOMS WERE TAKEN. MR HUGGINS HAD BEEN STAYING AT THE ONLY HOTEL AND OFFERED HIS ROOM TO IDA LAURA. HE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO ROOM WITH A FRIEND.
THE NEXT DAY THE 2 LADIES DEPARTED FOR D.C.
W.O. HUGGINS WAS IMPRESSED WITH IDA AND WOULD SEND LEATHER POSTCARDS TO :
MS IDA
FANNIN, TEXAS
ON FEBRUARY 12, 1908 W.O. HUGGINS AND MS IDA PARKS WERE MARRIED IN THE LIVING ROOM OF THE RANCH HOUSE IN FANNIN,TEXAS.
THEY RESIDED IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. THEY HAD 2 CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN--LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE AND WILLIAM OGBURN HUGGINS JR. THEY RAISED SOL MINCHEN PARKS, IDA'S NEPHEW, FROM THE AGE OF 8. THEY LOVED HIM AS THEIR OWN CHILDREN.
W.O. HUGGINS WAS FOUNDER OF HIS LAW FIRM IN HOUSTON, HUGGINS, KAYSER AND LIDDELL. THE LAW FIRM IS STILL OPERATING TODAY AND HAS 165 ATTORNEYS EMPLOYED. MR HUGGINS, IN LATER YEARS, WAS EDITOR OF THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE FROM 1929 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1934.
IDA LAURA WAS WIDELY KNOWN FOR HER CHARITABLE AND PHILANTHROPIC WORK, NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WAS DEEDING THE LAND AND THE BOYD ROCK HOUSE TO GOLIAD COUNTY FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY AND LATER CONTRIBUTING SUBSTANTIALLY TOWARD THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRESENT LIBRARY ON THE SAME SITE.
Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas
24 Jan 1961, Tue • Page 1
OBIT: Mrs. Idalaura Huggins of Pioneer Parks Ranching Family Dies at 81
Mrs. Idalaura Parks Huggins, descendant of the pioneer Sol Parks family of Goliad and widow of a Houston attorney who was once editor of the Houston Chronicle, died at 8:45 p. m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at her home here. She had reached her 81st birthday just a week before Christmas.
Mrs. Huggins was widely known here for her charitable and philanthropic work, not the least of which was deeding the land and the old Boyd rock home to the county for a public library and later contributing substantially toward the construction of the present new library on the same site.
She was a daughter of the late Sol Parks, who in passing through Goliad en route from Tennessee to California during the gold rush days, was impressed by that both the rolling grasslands and a girl named Louise Lucas, formerly of New London, Canada. When Parks made his California strike, he returned here, purchased the Parks spread and married Miss Lucas, who became Idalaura's mother.
On Feb. 12, 1908, Idalaura married William O. Huggins and later moved to Houston, but she always maintained residences in both cities and died here in the city of her birth. She was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Gerald Donoghue of Goliad; a son William O. Huggins, Jr. of San Antonio and Goliad, and six grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a nephew, Sol Parks of Goliad.
Private funeral services were conducted at 4:30 p. m. Monday in Forrest Park Cemetery Chapel, Houston, by Mrs. Nezzell Dennis, Christian Science reader, with burial there under direction of the George H. Lewis Funeral Home of Houston. Local arrangements were by the Roy Thomas Funeral Home.
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The Huggins had 2 natural born children but also raised Ida's nephew, Sol Minchen Parks, from the age of 8. He referred to her as his mother.
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