George Lew PARKS

PARKS, OHEARN, JONES, SCHREIBER, WHIPPLE, ALLEN, TERRILL, BASS, TORGENSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/6/2010 at 16:39:26

Mason City Globe Gazette -- Iowa
July 29, 1996

January 23, 1909 -- July 27, 1996

LATIMER, IA -- George "Shorty" Lew Parks was born Jan. 23, 1909 on a farm near Alexander, the son of John W. (Will) and Margaret O'Hearn Parks. The family moved to Chapin where he grew to manhood and received his education. During World War II he served with the Army. On Feb. 3, 1946 George and Dorothy M. Jones were united in marriage at the Methodist Parsonage in Hampton. This union was blessed with three children. They farmed near Alexander, retiring in 1981 to Latimer. George died at Franklin General Hospital in Hampton on Saturday morning (July 27, 1996) at the age of 87 years, six months and four days. He had been a patient there for two weeks.

Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Dorothy of Latimer; daughter, Mary Schreiber and husband, Jerry, of Kanawha; son, Robert and wife, Ardith, of Alexander; five grandchildren, Douglas Schreiber, Lorrie Allen, Doreen Whipple, and Tiffany and Jennifer Parks; four great-grandchildren, Johnathon, Zachary and Kaylee Schreiber, and Brittany Allen; two brothers, Edward and Clyde of Hampton; and three sisters, Helen Terrill and Evelyn Bass of Hampton, and Nell Parks of Mason City. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Glenn and Frank; a sister, Margaret Torgensen; and his son, John, in 1973.

For many years he was a member of the Hansen-Have Post of the Latimer American Legion. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at United Methodist Church in Alexander with the Rev. James Turner officiating. Military honors will be given by the Latimer American Legion at the Alexander Cemetery. Visitation will be held after 3 p.m. Tuesday at Willim Funeral Home in Latimer, with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m.