PARKER, Colonel Frederic T. 1897-1981
PARKER, THOMPSON, SOULE, ALDON
Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/28/2008 at 17:50:26
(Lyon County Reporter -- October 14, 1981)
Gravside services for Col. Frederic T. Parker, 83, of Arlington, Virginia, were held this morning (Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1981) in the Riverview cemetery in Rock Rapids. He died on Saturday, October 10, 1981 at an Arlington hospital.
Parker was born in Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa, on November 5, 1897, the son of Lilly Thompson and Frederic B. Parker. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1920 and attended Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He also attended and graduated from the army's industrial college.
During World War I he enlisted in the student army training corps, was commissioned a second Lieutenant of field artillery, and was discharged on December 14, 1918.
In 1924 he was commissioned a second lieutenant field artillery organized reserve corps; he maintained his reserve or active duty status until he retired as colonel in December 1957.
Active duty included command of civilian conservation corps camps inMississippi and Tennessee. In 1940 he was recalled to active duty in the corp of engineers and he subsequently served as post engineer at many locations including a 15 month stay (1945-1946) with the royal air force as post engineer at Nassau, Bahamas, British West indies, and two years in the Territory of Hawaii. He was relieved from active duty in 1950.
Col. Parker then returned to the Washington, D.C. area where he was employed in the office of the chief of engineers, military district of Washington, as construction management engineer for three years before going with the National Security Agency in the same capacity. He retired from the civil service in 1958.
He was a perpetual member of the Military Order of World Wars, Northern Virginia Chapter; life member of the National Association of Uniformed Services; Veterans of World War I; and Reserve Officers Association; a member of the Harvard Business School Club of D.C.; a charter member of the Harvard Masonic Lodge (AF and AM) at that university and other Masonic orders in Iowa.
He was a deputy governor of the Society of the Mayflower Descendants in Washington, and a charter member of the Oklahoma chapter; a member of the North American Manx Association; Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, Soule and Aldon Kindreds and Sons of the American Revolution.
Survivors include his widow; two sons, Frederic and James, both of Alexandria, Virginia; and a grandson.
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