If Steve was anything, he was a great salesman, having honed his sales skills at one of the largest BMW dealerships in the Mid-South while still in his twenties. His talents as a salesman eventually propelled him to significant financial success and heights in the business world... but he also made and acknowledged his mistakes, mistakes for which he paid and suffered very dearly, both financially and personally with loss of fortune and separation, for a time, from family. However, Steve emerged from that cauldron of loss with a clear vision of those values of true import: love and importance of family and a quiet but sure faith. He was working tirelessly, typically six days a week every week, in an effort to reclaim a portion of what he had lost, even ignoring and hiding the signs of declining health and serious disease until he could ignore and hide them no longer, and that disease claimed Steve as another of its victims, but one who faced it with courage, knowing and accepting the odds against him, and one who now struggles no more.
Survivors: mother, Martha Jane Goolsby Parks; wife, Anna Louise Harper; daughter, Cooper DesLauriers of the home; son, Madison Kirl Parks (Tracy) of Southhaven, Mississippi; daughter, Dana Marie Parks Messina (Paolo) of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
A memorial service will be held at a later time when COVID restrictions have eased.
Memorials can be made to Arkansas Autism & Outreach Center (AAROC), Partners for Inclusive Commuunities (uofapartners.uark.edu)
www.cremationservicesofarkansas.com
If Steve was anything, he was a great salesman, having honed his sales skills at one of the largest BMW dealerships in the Mid-South while still in his twenties. His talents as a salesman eventually propelled him to significant financial success and heights in the business world... but he also made and acknowledged his mistakes, mistakes for which he paid and suffered very dearly, both financially and personally with loss of fortune and separation, for a time, from family. However, Steve emerged from that cauldron of loss with a clear vision of those values of true import: love and importance of family and a quiet but sure faith. He was working tirelessly, typically six days a week every week, in an effort to reclaim a portion of what he had lost, even ignoring and hiding the signs of declining health and serious disease until he could ignore and hide them no longer, and that disease claimed Steve as another of its victims, but one who faced it with courage, knowing and accepting the odds against him, and one who now struggles no more.
Survivors: mother, Martha Jane Goolsby Parks; wife, Anna Louise Harper; daughter, Cooper DesLauriers of the home; son, Madison Kirl Parks (Tracy) of Southhaven, Mississippi; daughter, Dana Marie Parks Messina (Paolo) of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
A memorial service will be held at a later time when COVID restrictions have eased.
Memorials can be made to Arkansas Autism & Outreach Center (AAROC), Partners for Inclusive Commuunities (uofapartners.uark.edu)
www.cremationservicesofarkansas.com
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