Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Roy Lee Parker

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Obit for Roy Lee Parker

Roy Lee Parker, 69, who was born in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma and
graduated from high school in Elk City, died February 16, 2002 in Odessa,
Texas, where he lived 34 years.  The funeral and burial in Odessa was
February 18, 2002.

The son of the late Eual Parker and Ethel Smith Parker Nance, he also
was the grandson and great grandson of Oklahoma pioneers.  He was a retired
oil exploration specialist and business man.

In 1959, he went to Libya as a drilling supervisor and later also worked
in Nigeria for the Gulf Oil Corp.

When he returned to the United States in 1966, he lived for a time in
Monahans, Texas, before settling in Odessa where he owned or was a partner
in several ventures, and became widely known as a firefighting speciallist
with his own business.  He also worked as a drilling and production
consultant for several other companies and formed a partnership that built
trailer-mounted oilfield pipe inspection machines.

He is survived by a son, Nolan Eual Parker, of Lindale, Texas; two
daughters, Mrs. Patricia Jean Slade of Tyler, Texas, and Mrs. Lee Polette
Perkins of Midland, Texas, and three grandchildren.

Other survivors include to aunts, Mrs. Lucille Smith Little of Cheyenne,
Oklahoma and Mrs. Donna Smith Parker of Ponca City; and two uncles, Richard
Smith of Cheyenne and Lloyd Smith of Oklahoma City.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK