Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Tabor, Willard Parker January 19, 1923
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Danielsville Monitor,  16 February 1923
A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF WILLARD PARKER TABOR

Willard Parker Tabor, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Tabor was born at 
Fort Lamar, Madison County twenty eight years ago and died Jan 19, 1923, after 
a lingering illness.  His length of life as we regard years was short, yet 
there was a great deal of time worth lived in those years.  Parker was never 
any other than a good boy, possessing a sunny cheerful disposition, and being 
so unselfish in his regard for others, he easily mdae friends wherever his lot 
was cast.  During his school years his bright mind enabled him to make such 
rapid progress that he was a joy and an inspiration to his teachers. 

During the High School period in the teen age which is so trying to many boys, 
he never gave his loved ones one moments uneasiness for he was the same 
trustworthy, dependable boy that he had always been.  In a quiet way he made 
life worth while for many people.  When he entered College he studied very 
diligently, winning many honors.  He made friends among the best people and 
these frineds were held throughout the years.  So many of them say now: "His 
life meant so much to me", "I loved him like a brother", etc, etc.  He 
graduated in 1917 and gave two of the best years of his life in the service of 
his country.  He did not hesitate when he faced a duty, nor shrink when he 
encountered danger.  He knew nothing about putting thru a job half done and 
despised sham work of any kind.  During his long stay overseas, he did much 
trying, taxing work and it was probably while over there he contracted 
the disease from which he died. 

After coming home he seemed contented to settle down to the quiet life of 
farming in his old commnity.  Here he found many opportunities for using the 
talents God had given him.  The trustees of his home school requested him to 
teach for them, which he did for three successive years with good results, as 
so many of his patrons and pupils testify.  He brought the school up to a three 
teacher school and prepared the High School pupils very diligently for their 
life's work.  He not only filled the Prin. of the High with its much work and 
responsibility, but was a S. S. teacher, Steward in the church, Dist. S.S. 
Supervisor, Pres. Epworth League and member of the Board of Education.  Besides 
all this, he was seeing after his farming interests also.

Those closest to him realized that he was working too hard was letting his 
bouyant spirit and indominable energy tax his strength  many times too much and 
the realized too late, that the dread disease had already made much progress 
before Parker considered that he even needed attention.  Parker was very loyal 
to his friends, he was especially tender hearted toward those who are "down and 
out."  No one of that kind ever called to hime in vain.  Truly he was one of 
Natures noblemen and lived the religion that he professed.  He has lived a 
beautiful life so gentle in nature with never any attempt at display, nothing 
artifical, but wholy genuine.  He has left us nothing to regret in the life 
that he lived, except that it was cut short. 

One who knew and loved him.

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