Obituary of Rawlins Millard Parker, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal;
Micro Film at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.


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PARKER, Rawlins Millard

 Rawlins Millard Parker, 76, of Trout died at the Veterans Hospital in
Alexandria last Saturday, January 12, 1974. He was a retired employee of the
U.S. Forestry Service and a veteran of World War I.

 Funeral services were held Monday, at the Fellowship Baptist Church with
the Revs. S.B. Spinks, G.R. Nolan, Wayne Pounders, John Ed Snell and Max
Billings, officiating.

 Interment followed in Belah Cemetery of Jena under direction of Hixson
Brothers Inc., of Jena.

 Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Rosa Russell Parker of Trout; six 
daughters, Mrs. Louise Mitchell and Mrs. Lerita Richardson, both of Jena,
Mrs. Mary Valentine, Mrs. Christine Reeves and Mrs. Sybil Evans, all of Trout,
and Mrs. Ruby Lee of Shreveport; four sons, R.M. Parker, Jr., Harold C. Parker
and Eldred L. Parker, all of Jena, and Jessis M. Parker of Pearland, Texas;
three brothers, Fred Parker of Shreveport, S.M. Parker of Reeves and J.D.
Parker of Ames, Iowa; five sisters, Mrs. Marie Brown of Nebo, Mrs. Grace
Gaudin, Mrs. Callie Gogns, Miss Mattie Parker and Mrs. Clara Thompson, all of
Shreveport; 27 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

 Pallbearers were J.W. Nix, Tommy Parker, Maxie Parker, Alex Thomas, Gary
Parker and Lloyd Wilcox.

(The Jena Times, Thursday, January 17, 1974)