MADISON COUNTY, NC - OBITUARY - Elsie Parker, 8 May 1926 ----¤¤¤¤---- Asheville Citizens Times Microfilm p. 79 On Saturday night, May 8th, at 10:30 o'clock, Mrs. Elsie Parker, age 48 years, after an illness of nearly 6 months, departed this life. Cause of death was female and kidney trouble. The Funeral was Tuesday, May 11th at 2:00 conducted by Mr. J. M. Brown. The body was interred in Reynolds Cemetery at 4:00. Pallbearers were a number of her friends, whose names have not been obtained. Mrs. Parker is survived by one of her parents, Mrs. Susan Woody of Walnut, N. C.; her husband, Mr. J. N. Parker; five brothers, Messrs. Will, John, Tom, Hal, and Burnett Woody; two sisters, Mrs. Callie Parker and Mrs. Maggie Buchannan; and three children, Mrs. Mildred Blankenship, Misses. Carolina and Maggie Jane Parker Many out-of-town attendants were present at the funeral Mrs. Parker died in the French Broad Hospital at Asheville, N. C. She had been in the hospital for five weeks. She underwent an operation April 14th. Then kidney trouble struck her, from which she did not recover. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Ava D. Moseley rosebud60@alltel.net ___________________________________________________________________