PARKE, Ted: Died 1981

PARKE, WILSON, ROBERTS, BLUNK, PEARSON, DOUD

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 6/16/2021 at 04:27:54

**Handwritten: Rec-Rep. 12 Nov. 1981

TED PARKE

Ted Parke, 70, of Ingleside Tex., died Sat., Nov. 7, 1981, at 5 p.m. of an apparent heart attack at his home. He was a former resident of Farmington, Iowa and Athens, Mo.

The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 10, in the Marshall Funeral Home at Aransas Pass, Tex. Burial was in Memory Gardens at Corpus Christy, Texas.

He was born Oct. 15, 1911 in Lee County, Iowa, the son of L.E. and Etta Wilson Parke.

He was a retired security guard at the Corpus Christy National Bank.

He was married to Dollie Roberts on April 30, 1922 at Memphis, Mo.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Marvin (Marilyn) Blunk of Portland, Tex. and Mrs. Marjorie Pearson of Ingleside, Tex.; one son, Robert, of Houston, Tex., and seven grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were his wife on Sept. 29, 1976, a son, Everett Howard, on Feb. 5, 1937, his parents, an infant sister, two brothers, Richard and Edgar, and a sister, Thelma Doud.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 20, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA