Date of birth: 26 Oct 1907
Date of death: 09 Mar 1996

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Burial Information

Section 09 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0404-06
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary

Martha Shearer Parker

Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Shearer Parker, 88, of Lexington were at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 12 at First United Methodist Church in Lexington. Rev. Bill Garrison officiated. Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington.

Mrs. Parker died Saturday, March 9 at River Oaks Hospital in Flowood of heart failure.

A native of Houston, Mrs. Parker was a resident of Lexington for 60 years. She was active in the First United Methodist Church, church choir, and Women of the United Methodist church. She was a retired registered nurse having worked mostly for the Holmes County Community Hospital. She had also worked for the State Board of Health, and other hospitals in the area. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Lexington. She was the widow of Alton Brooks Parker.

Survivors include: son, Alton Byars Parker of Florence; daughter, Martha Brooks Nelson of Laurel six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Active pallbearers were Pat Barrett, Jr., Richard Hammett, Julian Watson, John Raiford Ellison, Robert Hammett, and Parker Nelson.

Honorary pallbearers were Isaac King, Pat Barrett, Pepper Tidwell, Ray Johnson, Theo Moses, Dr. Charles Campbell, Dr. John Downer, Woodson Earl and Mike Lammons.

The family requests that memorials be made to the First United Methodist Church of Lexington, or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.

The Holmes County Herald (Lexington, MS)
March 14, 1996, vol. 38, no. 10, pg. 5

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Family Members

Parents
Edward Baxter Shearer
1858–1907

Henrietta Byars Shearer
1874–1949

Siblings
Rev John Byars Shearer
1899–1984

Sally Shearer Smith
1902–1955

Edward Boyd Shearer
1905–1977

Spouse
Alton Brooks Parker
1905–1977 (m. 12 April 1936)

Children
Rose Shearer Parker
unknown - 3 May 1941

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Research Notes

Per their wedding announcement printed in the Times Post, Houston, Miss., dated March 19, 1936, Alton Brooks Parker and Martha Rose Shearer were to be married Easter Sunday, April 12th, 1936 in Houston, Chickasaw Co., Miss.

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