Mrs. Bobbie Cleo Parker, age 79, of Palestine, died Saturday, March 16, at the Baptist East Hospital in Memphis. She had been in poor health for the past several years.
Mrs. Parker was born Sept. 17, 1922, in Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Jeb Andrew Watkins and Emma Miller Watkins. She lived in Palestine most of her life, was a past employee of Reltoc Manufacturing, and was a member of the Palestine Church of Christ.
Mrs. Parker married Jack C. Parker in 1959, and he survives her along with one son, Charles Lobban of Pasadena, Texas; two daughters, Sandra Pruett of Gadson, Ala., and Barbara Ann Dodson of Houston, Texas; one sister, Marie Hendrick of Little Rock; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at Stevens Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Mrs. Parker will be held at the Palestine Church of Christ at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2002, with burial in Bell Cemetery under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.