Obit for Paul A. Parker of Logan County, Oklahoma 

Submitted by:  Nancy Parker      nanparker@cox.net
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Taken from GUTHRIE NEWS LEADER, Sunday, February 8, 1998
 
Funeral services for Paul A. Parker, 85, longtime Guthrie resident
and businessman are scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, 1998, at 
Davis Funeral Chapel in Guthrie.  The Rev. Ron Jenkins will officiate
and burial will be in Summit View Cemetery. Services are under the 
direction of Davis Funeral Home.

Paul was born July 6, 1912, in LaCygne, Linn County, Kan., to Charley
A. and Katie B. (Baldwin) Parker.  He died Friday, Feb. 6, 1998 at 
Logan Hospital and Medical Center in Guthrie.  

He graduated from Guthrie High School in 1931 and attended college in
Edmond.  He worked at the Douglas Plant during World War II and was 
owner and operator of Parker Advertising Company from 1946 until his
retirement in 1974.  Paul served two terms on the Guthrie City 
Council, he was past president of the Guthrie Rotary Club and was a
member of the Masonic Lodge and Service Knights.

He married Kathleen Barry of Guthrie on March 24, 1934.

Survivors included his wife, Kathleen Parker of the home in Guthrie;
one son, Norman A. Parker and wife, Nancy, of Norman; two daughters,
Linda Parker and husband, Bob Clark and Dee Ann Anderson and husband
George (Andy) Anderson, all of Edmond; one brother, Claud Parker and
wife, Hallie, of Clinton, Okla.; sister-in-law, Bettie Belle (Barry)
McGinnis of Guthrie; brothers-in-law, John Barry and wife Anne of
Tulsa, Okla. and Charles Barry and wife, Elizabeth of Houston,
Texas; seven grandchildren, six great grandchildren and many 
nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, a sister Opal, and more recently
by a son, Michael Parker, on Jan. 22, 1998.