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Notes for John Hicks PARKER

ORDINANCES: IGI Batch 7721726 Source Call 1059329 sheet 88

THE NEWS--Page 3 col. 6. Hemet, California Thursday, September 2, 1971.
Funeral Services Tomorrow for John H. Parker. Services will be held
tomorrow
morning at 11:30 in the Harford Funeral Home, Hemet, for John Hicks
Parker, 80,
resident of the valley for the past 57 years, who died Tuesday at a local
hospital.
The Rev. John Hedwall of the Hemet First Christian Church, of which Mr.
Parker
was a long time member, will officiate. Burial will be in San Jacinto
Valley
Cemetery.
Mr. Parker was born in Kentucky on December 27, 1890. He was a rancher
all
his life and farmed in Hemet since 1914 until his retirement.
He and his wife, Mrs. Mabel E. Parker, who survives, celebrated their
sixtieth
wedding anniversary in December, 1970.
When the Parkers first came to Hemet they settled on an apricot ranch in
the
Little Lake district where they resided for many years. In addition to
growing apricots, they raised various row crops, including strawberries,
in
different sections of the valley for a number of years.
The Parkers also operated an apricot dry yard for a considerable length
of time
and during the depression years packaged their own dried fruit. Mr .
Parker
being one of the first to package dried fruit in cellophane.
Later, Mr. Parker and his son, Melvin, operated an extensive poultry
ranch on
South Girard street.
Other survivors, besides the widow, include two sons, Melvin Parker of
Idyllwild and Paul Parker of Oswego, Kansas; two brothers, Clark N.
Parker of
Hemet and Dr. Leon Parker of San Francisco; a sister, Gertrude Slaton of
Hemet; four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Source: Shirley May Parker DeLosie

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