Parker, Anna Belle Lester – 1922-1979

DANKS, FORD, HOLMES, KUHN, LESTER, PARKER

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 9/14/2021 at 17:09:03

Anna Parker Dies Friday; Rites Tuesday
Mrs. Clarence J. (Anna Belle) Parker, 56, of 811 E 13th St. N., a resident of Newton for two years and longtime resident of Jasper County, died Friday evening at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the United Presbyterian Church.
The Rev. Marvin Potter, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in the McKeever Cemetery, north of Colfax.
Wallace Funeral Home is handling arrangements which have not been completed.
Survivors are her husband, two sons, Larry Joe Ford of Monroe and Gary Dean Ford in the Navy at San Diego, Calif.; a daughter, Arlene Lavonne Holmes of Newton; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Kenneth (Ruth Marie) Kuhn of Newton and three brothers, Thomas E. Lester of San Diego, Calif.; Howard L. Lester of Texas and Burton L. Lester of Newton.
Mrs. Parker was preceded in death by her parents, a son in infancy and two brothers, Harold L. Lester and Vernon Lester.
Mrs. Parker, a counselor out of the New York office of Alcoholics Anonymous, had worked for the Maytag Co., been a practical nurse and had driven trucks.
She was a member of the Alcoholics Anonymous, United Presbyterian Church, Moose Lodge, Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and Pocahontas Lodge.
The daughter of John H. and Minnie G. Danks Lester, she was born Aug. 23, 1922 at Perry, attended Colfax schools and had received additional education through the Alcoholics Anonymous organization.
She was married Aug. 9, 1969 at Bridal Cave in Canton, Mo.
Source: Newton (IA) Daily News; March 5, 1979