Coles County IL Archives Obituaries.....Parke, Margaret ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bev Dobbins bosartbev@aol.com May 1999 Obituary of Margaret PARKE, Coles County, Illinois Name of Deceased: Margaret PARKE Name of Newspaper: Mattoon Journal-Gazette MARGARET PARKE HUMBOLDT Margaret S. Parke, 94, of Humboldt, died at 8:40 p.m. Tuesday (October 20, 1992) at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center. The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Shrader Funeral Home in Arcola with the Rev. Terry Ford officiating. Visitation will be from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Humboldt Cemetery. She was born December 30, 1897, in Coles Station, the daughter of John E. and Wilhelmina Schmidt Bolin. She married Clarence W. Parke in 1921. He died February 19, 1978. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Maurice (Jean) Crane of Sullivan; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by two sons, three brothers, a sister and a granddaughter. Mrs. Parke was a private piano instructor. She was a member of the Arcola First Christian Church, the Arcola Music Club and Moultrie County Homemakers Extension. Memorials may be made to the Arcola First Christian Church or the Arthur Home. http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/coles/obits/n-s/mparke.txt