Smyth County, Virginia, Obituaries:  Ester Marchant Parker

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Notices for February 9

Smyth County News
Wednesday, February 9, 2005

Parker

Ester Marchant Parker, 94, died Sunday, Feb. 6, 2005, in Francis Marion Manor.
She was born December 2, 1910, in Marion to the late John Edward and Sara Jonas
Marchant and was a member of Falling Water Baptist Church. In addition to her
parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Zeb Carmen Parker, four
sisters, four brothers, and one son-in-law. Survivors include one son and
daughter-in-law, Ernest “Ted” and Jane Parker of Bristol, Tenn.; two daughters
and a son-in-law, Peggy Antrican of Bristol, Tenn. and Atha and Stanley Mercer
of Atkins; seven grandchildren, William Coolidge Antrican, Jr. and wife, Susan,
Angela A. Such and husband, Brian, Alisa Carol Mercer, David Parker and wife,
Debbie, Tommy Parker and wife, Susan, Douglas Parker and wife, Cynthia, and Jeff
Parker and wife, Nancy; seventeen great-grandchildren, Jason and Erin Antrican,
David, Stacy and Bradley Parker, Michael, Melanie, Christy, and Erica Parker,
Greg, Andrea, and Bethany Parker, Justin, Shelby, and Max Parker, and Hunter and
Austin Such; and two great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005, at 7 p.m. at Seaver-Brown
Chapel with the Rev. Paul Jones and Dr. Mark Ross officiating. Burial will be
held in Rose Lawn Cemetery, Marion.

Expressions of sympathy may be made to the family at www.seaverbrown.com.

The family will receive friends Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005, from 6 p.m. until time
of the service at Seaver-Brown Chapel.