DELL CITY - Katherine Rebecca "Becky" Parker, 79, died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, in Midland.
Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Dell View Memorial Park Cemetery in Dell City with Lindsay Snodgrass officiating. Arrangements are by Denton Wood Funeral Home of Carlsbad, N.M.
Becky was born April 12, 1929, in Austin to Thomas Garner and Lillian Mayfield Garner. The family later moved to Turkey, where she spent her school years.
She graduated in 1946 from Turkey High School. She worked at the local drugstore and for a short time wrote a column for the Turkey newspaper.
On Dec. 25, 1948, Becky married Wilbur James Parker. The family moved to Dell City in 1954. She was a member of the Dell City Church of Christ.
Becky's husband, Wilbur, worked for Paymaster Gins. He later purchased the Round Mountain gins with partners in 1971, and named the company Dell Gin Co. Becky also worked at the cotton gin, running the scales through the years. They retired from ginning in 1992.
Becky was a natural beauty with a beautiful smile. Everyone who knew her loved her. She was a generous woman.
She loved nature and animals, especially birds. She had peafowl, all types of chickens, pheasants, guineas and crows. She nursed many wild birds back to health.
She loved to collect bottles and rocks, and she spent countless days with her children hunting arrowheads until dark. She was a lifelong artist and painter.
She loved the desert, Dell City and the Guadalupe Mountains. She missed the mountains dearly when she moved to Odessa. She painted many paintings of the Guadalupe Mountains through the years. She is greatly loved and missed by her family.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur; her parents; her brother, Johnny Garner of Abilene; her sister, Tommie Jo Slaughter of Amarillo; and her great-granddaughter, Sarah Isabelle Parker of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Survivors include her children, Thomas Garner Parker and wife Linda of Memphis, Joe Ed Parker and wife Mary of Carlsbad, N.M., and Cynthia Ann Parker Hill of Odessa; her grandchildren, Joe Hill, Deedra Lynch, Rebecca Weems and husband Dillan, Melody Parker, Rita Kemp and husband Bobby, Kari Tawater and husband Greg and Kyle Parker and wife Zuzana; and her great-grandchildren, Brennen Lynch, Ambriana Lynch, Nikola Weems and Andrew Tawater.
Pallbearers are Joe Hill, Bobby Kemp, Dillan Weems, Greg Tawater, Britt Garner and Brad Garner. Honorary pallbearer is Kyle Parker, her grandson serving in the U.S. Air Force.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 3, 2008
Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Dell View Memorial Park Cemetery in Dell City with Lindsay Snodgrass officiating. Arrangements are by Denton Wood Funeral Home of Carlsbad, N.M.
Becky was born April 12, 1929, in Austin to Thomas Garner and Lillian Mayfield Garner. The family later moved to Turkey, where she spent her school years.
She graduated in 1946 from Turkey High School. She worked at the local drugstore and for a short time wrote a column for the Turkey newspaper.
On Dec. 25, 1948, Becky married Wilbur James Parker. The family moved to Dell City in 1954. She was a member of the Dell City Church of Christ.
Becky's husband, Wilbur, worked for Paymaster Gins. He later purchased the Round Mountain gins with partners in 1971, and named the company Dell Gin Co. Becky also worked at the cotton gin, running the scales through the years. They retired from ginning in 1992.
Becky was a natural beauty with a beautiful smile. Everyone who knew her loved her. She was a generous woman.
She loved nature and animals, especially birds. She had peafowl, all types of chickens, pheasants, guineas and crows. She nursed many wild birds back to health.
She loved to collect bottles and rocks, and she spent countless days with her children hunting arrowheads until dark. She was a lifelong artist and painter.
She loved the desert, Dell City and the Guadalupe Mountains. She missed the mountains dearly when she moved to Odessa. She painted many paintings of the Guadalupe Mountains through the years. She is greatly loved and missed by her family.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur; her parents; her brother, Johnny Garner of Abilene; her sister, Tommie Jo Slaughter of Amarillo; and her great-granddaughter, Sarah Isabelle Parker of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Survivors include her children, Thomas Garner Parker and wife Linda of Memphis, Joe Ed Parker and wife Mary of Carlsbad, N.M., and Cynthia Ann Parker Hill of Odessa; her grandchildren, Joe Hill, Deedra Lynch, Rebecca Weems and husband Dillan, Melody Parker, Rita Kemp and husband Bobby, Kari Tawater and husband Greg and Kyle Parker and wife Zuzana; and her great-grandchildren, Brennen Lynch, Ambriana Lynch, Nikola Weems and Andrew Tawater.
Pallbearers are Joe Hill, Bobby Kemp, Dillan Weems, Greg Tawater, Britt Garner and Brad Garner. Honorary pallbearer is Kyle Parker, her grandson serving in the U.S. Air Force.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 3, 2008
DELL CITY - Katherine Rebecca "Becky" Parker, 79, died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, in Midland.
Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Dell View Memorial Park Cemetery in Dell City with Lindsay Snodgrass officiating. Arrangements are by Denton Wood Funeral Home of Carlsbad, N.M.
Becky was born April 12, 1929, in Austin to Thomas Garner and Lillian Mayfield Garner. The family later moved to Turkey, where she spent her school years.
She graduated in 1946 from Turkey High School. She worked at the local drugstore and for a short time wrote a column for the Turkey newspaper.
On Dec. 25, 1948, Becky married Wilbur James Parker. The family moved to Dell City in 1954. She was a member of the Dell City Church of Christ.
Becky's husband, Wilbur, worked for Paymaster Gins. He later purchased the Round Mountain gins with partners in 1971, and named the company Dell Gin Co. Becky also worked at the cotton gin, running the scales through the years. They retired from ginning in 1992.
Becky was a natural beauty with a beautiful smile. Everyone who knew her loved her. She was a generous woman.
She loved nature and animals, especially birds. She had peafowl, all types of chickens, pheasants, guineas and crows. She nursed many wild birds back to health.
She loved to collect bottles and rocks, and she spent countless days with her children hunting arrowheads until dark. She was a lifelong artist and painter.
She loved the desert, Dell City and the Guadalupe Mountains. She missed the mountains dearly when she moved to Odessa. She painted many paintings of the Guadalupe Mountains through the years. She is greatly loved and missed by her family.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur; her parents; her brother, Johnny Garner of Abilene; her sister, Tommie Jo Slaughter of Amarillo; and her great-granddaughter, Sarah Isabelle Parker of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Survivors include her children, Thomas Garner Parker and wife Linda of Memphis, Joe Ed Parker and wife Mary of Carlsbad, N.M., and Cynthia Ann Parker Hill of Odessa; her grandchildren, Joe Hill, Deedra Lynch, Rebecca Weems and husband Dillan, Melody Parker, Rita Kemp and husband Bobby, Kari Tawater and husband Greg and Kyle Parker and wife Zuzana; and her great-grandchildren, Brennen Lynch, Ambriana Lynch, Nikola Weems and Andrew Tawater.
Pallbearers are Joe Hill, Bobby Kemp, Dillan Weems, Greg Tawater, Britt Garner and Brad Garner. Honorary pallbearer is Kyle Parker, her grandson serving in the U.S. Air Force.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 3, 2008
Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Dell View Memorial Park Cemetery in Dell City with Lindsay Snodgrass officiating. Arrangements are by Denton Wood Funeral Home of Carlsbad, N.M.
Becky was born April 12, 1929, in Austin to Thomas Garner and Lillian Mayfield Garner. The family later moved to Turkey, where she spent her school years.
She graduated in 1946 from Turkey High School. She worked at the local drugstore and for a short time wrote a column for the Turkey newspaper.
On Dec. 25, 1948, Becky married Wilbur James Parker. The family moved to Dell City in 1954. She was a member of the Dell City Church of Christ.
Becky's husband, Wilbur, worked for Paymaster Gins. He later purchased the Round Mountain gins with partners in 1971, and named the company Dell Gin Co. Becky also worked at the cotton gin, running the scales through the years. They retired from ginning in 1992.
Becky was a natural beauty with a beautiful smile. Everyone who knew her loved her. She was a generous woman.
She loved nature and animals, especially birds. She had peafowl, all types of chickens, pheasants, guineas and crows. She nursed many wild birds back to health.
She loved to collect bottles and rocks, and she spent countless days with her children hunting arrowheads until dark. She was a lifelong artist and painter.
She loved the desert, Dell City and the Guadalupe Mountains. She missed the mountains dearly when she moved to Odessa. She painted many paintings of the Guadalupe Mountains through the years. She is greatly loved and missed by her family.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilbur; her parents; her brother, Johnny Garner of Abilene; her sister, Tommie Jo Slaughter of Amarillo; and her great-granddaughter, Sarah Isabelle Parker of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Survivors include her children, Thomas Garner Parker and wife Linda of Memphis, Joe Ed Parker and wife Mary of Carlsbad, N.M., and Cynthia Ann Parker Hill of Odessa; her grandchildren, Joe Hill, Deedra Lynch, Rebecca Weems and husband Dillan, Melody Parker, Rita Kemp and husband Bobby, Kari Tawater and husband Greg and Kyle Parker and wife Zuzana; and her great-grandchildren, Brennen Lynch, Ambriana Lynch, Nikola Weems and Andrew Tawater.
Pallbearers are Joe Hill, Bobby Kemp, Dillan Weems, Greg Tawater, Britt Garner and Brad Garner. Honorary pallbearer is Kyle Parker, her grandson serving in the U.S. Air Force.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 3, 2008
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