Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, Surry Sr., 1942 

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SURRY PARKER 

  Surry Parker of 1321 Brunswick Park, Norfolk, died yesterday at 10:30 p.m., 
in Norfolk General Hospital after a short illness.  He was 75 years old and 
the son of the late Captain George Thomas Parker and Eunice Katherine Parker. 

  He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Pattie Borland Parker; five daughters, 
Mrs. William Mortimer Harrison of Newport News, Mrs. Jack R. Edwards of 
Greenville, N.C., Mrs. Bennett Watson Roberts, Durham, N.C., and the Misses 
Peggie Byrd and Jean Odom of Norfolk. 

  Surviving also are two sisters, Mrs. H.M. Parker and Mrs. A. Leonard Jones 
of Norfolk; five grandchildren, Surry Parker Harrison, William M. Harrison, 
3rd, Catherine Isabelle Parker, Bennett Watson Roberts, and Surry Parker 
Roberts. 

  The body was taken to the R.W. Baker and Company funeral home.  Funeral 
arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later. 

  The late Surry Parker was well known in Suffolk. 

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SURRY PARKER DIES IN HOSPITAL; FUNERAL AT 2 P.M.

PROMINENT LUMBERMAN OF EASTERN CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA

   Funeral services for Surry Parker, aged 75, who died Tuesday night at 10:15 
o'clock at a local hospital, will be conducted this afternoon at 2 o'clock at 
his residence, 1321 Brunswick Avenue.  Interment will be in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery, Suffolk.

   Mr. Parker was the son of Capt George Thomas Parker, C.S.A., of Gates 
County, N.C., and Mrs. Eunice Katherine Riddick Parker, of Nansemond County.

   For 50 years Surry Parker was prominent as a lumberman in Eastern North 
Carolina and Virginia.  Born the year following the War Between the States, he 
left Suffolk Military academy at the age of 15 and started to work.  Because 
of his achievements in mechanical engineering he established himself as an 
outstanding man in Eastern North Carolina.  He founded the town of Pine Town, 
in Beaufort County, N.C., where for 30 years he designed and built logging 
machines.  He trained mechanics whose skill is a lasting tribute to him. 
During his later years he continued to design and build logging equipment in 
Norfolk.

   Mr. Parker was married in 1891 to Ida Jane Whaley, of Whaleyville, Va., by 
whom he had one daughter.  His first wife died in 1895.  In 1899 he married 
Mary Shepard Odom, of Suffolk, by whom he had four daughters.  His second wife 
died in 1935, and recently he married Patty Borland Odom.

   Mr. Parker is survived by his wife, five daughters, Mrs. William Mortimer 
Harrison, of Newport News; Mrs. John Rawlings Edwards, of Greenville, N.C.; 
Mrs. Watson Roberts, of Durham, N.C., Misses Peggy Byrd and Jane Odom Parker; 
six grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Henley Parker and Mrs. A. Lynton Jones, 
and one niece, Mrs. Harold Hudgins.


Surry PARKER, Sr., of Norfolk, lumberman & logging equipment manufacturer, 
b. 1 Dec 1866, Nansemond Co., d. 21 Apr 1942, Norfolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 100*), Suffolk, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 20, No. 27, Wed., Apr. 22, 1942, p. 8; 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

A photo of Surry - added by Latham_G.W. - and one of his gravestone - 
   added by Jenny - are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #14418796. 

D.Cert. 8056 (Norfolk #731) 

His first wife's obits ("Norfolk Virginian," Dec. 27 & 28, 1895) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p626i2ob.txt 

His second wife's (donated, 1935) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p626m1ob.txt 

His widow's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Feb. 23, 1945, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p626p1ob.txt 

His father was a Confederate veteran, having served in Co. H, 5th NC Infantry, 
   rising from First Sergeant to Captain. 


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