Parks, Bessie 1890-1975

PARKS, PHELPS

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/18/2018 at 20:16:42

Obituary

Mrs. Arthur J. Parks

Mrs. Arthur J. Parks, 84, Arnolds Park, died Thursday, May 29, 1975, in a hospital at Prescott, Ariz., where she was spending the winter. She had been ill for several months. On Jan. 17, 1975, she sustained a broken hip.

Services were at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Free Methodist church church, Le Mars. Rev. Duane Paul Baiotto and Rev. Duane Pridey officiated. Burial was in Le Mars Mmorial cemetery under direction of the Mauer funeral home, Le Mars.

Mrs. Parks, the former Bessie Phelps, was born Nov. 22, 1890, at Larrabee. She was married July 3, 1907, at Neligh, Neb. The couple lived on a farm near Le Mars. Mr. Parks died in 1944. Two years later she moved to Arnolds Parks.

Survivors are two sons; Ronald of Arnolds Parks and Prescott; Lowell of rural Remsen; three daughters, Mrs. Aurel Collett, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Pauline Dempster, rural Le Mars and Mrs. Charlotte Lyons, Boone. There are 18 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1944; a son, Wilbur in 1962 and an infant daughter and three brothers.

Mrs. Parks was a member of the Free Methodist church, Le Mars until moving to Arnolds Park where she joined Friends church. She had been active in church work.

LeMars Daily Sentinel
Monday, June 2, 1975
Le Mars, Iowa