Wesley Ward Parker (2000)
BROMMEL, DENTON, DONNER, HAGAN, PARKER, PORTER, SEIBEL, SMITH
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/10/2006 at 12:51:59
The Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, North Dakota
Tuesday, February 15, 2000Wesley Ward Parker, 84, St. Charles, Iowa, died Feb. 12, 2000, in a Winterset, Iowa, hospital.
Services will be held at Calvary Baptist Church, St. Charles, at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in St. Charles Cemetery, St. Charles, Iowa.
He is survived by his wife, Nellie; one son, Dean, Truro, Iowa; one daughter, Judie Seibel, Bismarck; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; and one stepsister, Ferne Smith, California.
Kale Funeral Homes, Truro, Iowa.
________________________Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 16, 2000Wesley Ward Parker, 84, of St. Charles died from complications of Parkinson's disease Feb. 12, 2000, at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.
Funeral services were held today (Wednesday, Feb 16) at 11 a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church in St. Charles with the Rev. Rob Porter and Doug Helton officiating. Burial was at St. Charles Cemetery.
Ward Parker was born Oct. 5, 1915, to Joe and Myrtle Mary (Denton) Parker of rural Lorimor. As a young child, he moved with his parents to a farm southwest of Truro. He has been a resident of Clarke and Madison counties since then. He attended the Prairie Grove rural school as a youth, graduating from Truro High School in 1933. He married Nellie Ruth Porter on March 20, 1936, in Des Moines. He and his wife have lived on their family farm north of Truro for the last 55 years. Ward attended the Calvary Bible Church in Osceola.
He was preceded in death by his parents, stepmother and two brothers.
He is survived by his wife; a son, Dean Parker (wife Mary Lou) of Truro; a daughter, Judie Seibel (husband Kirby) of Bismark, N.D.; a stepsister, Ferne Smith of California; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were handled by Kale Funeral Home in Truro.
________________________The Osceola Sentinel Tribune
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, February 17, 2000
Page 3, Column 1WESLEY WARD PARKER
Wesley Ward Parker, son of Joe and Myrtle Mary Denton Parker, was born Oct. 5, 1915, on a farm near Lorimor in Union County and died Feb. 12, 2000, of complications of Parkinson’s disease, at the Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset. He was 84.
He moved with his parents to a farm southwest of Truro when he was young and had been a resident of Clarke and Madison Counties since then.
He attended Prairie Grove rural school and then attended and graduated from the Truro High School in 1933.
Mr. Parker married Nellie Ruth Porter On March 20, 1936, in Des Moines and they became the parents of two children, Dean and Judie. The couple lived on their family farm north of Truro for 55 years.
He was an active person who regarded his work as play. In addition to farming, he found time of a variety of endeavors from demolishing old buildings and doing custom field work to lay preaching in area churches and care centers.
Mr. Parker attended the Calvary Bible Church in Osceola.
Preceding him in death were his parents; two brothers, Wayne Parker and Harold Donner; and his stepmother, Elsie Parker.
Mr. Parker is survived by his wife, Nellie Parker of St. Charles; a son, Dean Parker and his wife, Mary Lou Parker, of Truro; a daughter, Judie Seibel and her husband, Kirby Seibel, of Bismarck, N.D.; six grandchildren, Christy Brommel and her husband, Mark Brommel of Indianola, Nancy Hagan and her husband, Todd Hagan of Truro, Rachael Parker of Iowa City, Lance Seibel of Wilton, N.D., Cory Seibel and his wife, Teresa Seibel, of Chesapeake, Va., and Nathan Seibel and his wife, Melissa Seibel, of Minneapolis, Minn.; three great-grandchildren, Colby Brommel of Indianola, and Connor and Nicholas Hagan of Truro; a stepsister, Ferne Smith of California; many nieces; nephews; other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were Feb. 16, at the Calvary Bible Church in St. Charles, the Rev. Rob Porter and Pastor Doug Helton officiating. Pat McKinney, organist, accompanied Cory and Nathan Seibel as they sang personal favorites of Mr. Parker, How Great Thou Art and He Could Have Called Ten Thousand Angels. The congregation sang Great Is Thy Faithfulness.
Casket bearers were Lance Seibel, Cory Seibel, Nathan Seibel, Mark Brommel, Todd Hagan and Tim Porter. Interment was in St. Charles Cemetery. Arrangements were by Kale Funeral Homes of Osceola and Truro.
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