Obit for Edward L. Parsons - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma 

Submitted by: Barbara Clayton 		  OklahomaClaytons@aol.com
Return to Kingfisher County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kingfisher/kingfisher.html
=====================================================================
                          USGENWEB NOTICE
                  Copyright.  All rights reserved.
             http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm       
=====================================================================


Source: THE KINGFISHER TIMES, Thursday, August 9, 1951.


Edward L. PARSONS died Monday in the veterans' hospital at Wadsworth,
Kans., after an extended illness.


Funeral service will be at 4 p.m. Friday at the Kingfisher Christian
church. Rev. James BEHLER and Rev. G. O. BELL will officiate. Burial
will be made in Kingfisher cemetery.

PARSONS came to Oklahoma with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. James
PARSONS, in 1900, and located east of Kingfisher in 1923.

He is survived by his wife, Mabel; two sons, Don and Laddie, of
Kingfisher, and a daughter, Clara June BEARD of Tokyo, Japan.

~~~~~~

Source: THE KINGFISHER TIMES, Thursday, August 16, 1951- OBITUARY.


EDWARD LEE PARSONS.


Edward Lee PARSONS was born Dec. 15, 1895, in Lenoir, N.C. In 1900,
he with his parents moved to Oklahoma and took a homestead in the
Washita river basin near Reydon, in Roger Mills county. There he grew
to manhood.

In 1917, he entered the United States army and served in World war I.
He served with the 36th division, Co. M. He returned home after his
discharge from the service in 1919.

On July 13, 1922, he was united in marriage with Mable A. WELLS. They
lived frist in Parks, Tex., then moved to Kingfisher county. They had
resided on a farm just east of town for the past 27 years. To this
union three children were born: Donald Edward, Clara June and Laddie
Lee.

Mr. PARSONS was a member of the First Christian church of Kingfisher.
During his active years he served on the church board as a deacon. He
also served as superintendent of the Big Four Sunday school for 10
years.

He was an active member of the Masonic lodge in Kingfisher, and of the
American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Mr. PARSONS had been in failing health for the past few years. He
died Aug. 6, at the veterans hospital in Wadsworth, Kans.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Donald and Laddie of
Kingfisher, and one daugh