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Melvin Wallace Parkins (1977)

PARKINS, BEERBOWER, GREENWOOD

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 3/23/2006 at 11:43:52

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 12, 1977, page 7

Melvin Parkins Services Held

Funeral services for Melvin W. Parkins, a life-long resident of Madison county, were held at 9:30 a.m. this Tuesday, Oct. 11 from Collins Funeral home in Winterset.

Mr. Parkins died Sunday, Oct 8th at his farm home in Jefferson township. He was 52 years of age.

The son of Allie and Edith Beerbower Parkins, he was born April 22, 1925. He was a 1943 graduate of Winterset high school.

On June 1, 1947, he married Wanda Greenwood in Winterset. His life-long vocation was farming.

He is survived by his wife, Wanda; his parents; two sons, Michael Dale Parkins of Van Meter and Martin Jay Parkins of Adel; two grandchildren; and one brother, Burton Dale Parkins of Washington, Michigan.

Officiating at the funeral service Tuesday was the Rev. Michael Crouch of Paris, Missouri.

Burial was in the Winterset cemetery.

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