Obit of Parris, Elton (Red) - Grady County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Maggie Wettengel 12 Feb 2006 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Friendship Cemetery--Pocasset OK Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1828.1 From the Chickasha Daily Express, Chickasha, Grady county, Oklahoma, Thursday, January 21, 1971. "ELTON (RED) PARRISH Funeral service for Elton (Red) Parrish, 75, Pocasset, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of Sevier Funeral Home. Mr. Parrish died Wednesday in Grady Memorial Hospital. He had been in failing health for the past five years. Mr. Parrish was born in Coriscana, Texas. He moved to this area in 1905 and was a farmer and stockman in the Pocasset community. Mr. Parrish married the former Miss Mabel Ring on November 23, 1932. He was a veteran of World War I, serving with the U.S. Army. Mr. Parrish was a member of the Friendship United Methodist Church and a member of the American Legion Post No. 215 of Minco. Survivors include his wife, Mabel of the home; one son, Chris of Chickasha; one brother, Jack Parrish of Chickasha; and two grandsons. Interment will be in the Friendship Cemetery near Pocasset." I am not family, I just help people with genealogy. Hope you enjoy what I found? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html