{"id":14878,"date":"2019-07-15T10:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14878"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:45:17","slug":"obituary-parker-forrest-eddie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=14878","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Parker, Forrest Eddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1944<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1944 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<br \/>Forrest Eddie Parker<\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; will enter the army air corps after graduation.  He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Parker, 301 Eleventh street and is 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He was born north of Perry and attended Lutheran grade school.  He is a member of DeMolay and the Letterman&#8217;s club.  He participated in football and wrestling for four years.<\/p>\n<p>College is planned for post-war years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Forrest Eddie Parker<\/h1>\n<h3>February 7, 1926 &#8211; April 9, 1977<\/h3>\n<p>Forrest Parker, 51, a native of Perry, died in the collision of a light plane he was piloting and another aircraft near Boulder, Colo., Saturday.  The owner of the plane, flying with Forest, also died.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be Tuesday at Longmost, Colo, where he operated a tire store.<\/p>\n<p>Parker was a graduate of Perry high school and was the son of Eddie and Gertrude (Clark) Parker, 301 Eleventh street.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his parents, Parker is survived by his wife, Margaret, of the home; two sons, Paul Scott of the home, and Don Edward, who lives in Minnesota, and two sisters, Joan Patterson, who lives at Temple, Texas and Betty Yager, of Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Parker, a daughter of the Forrest Parkers, died in a plane crash at Navasota, Texas, on Nov. 25, 1973.  Services and burial for Miss Parker were held in Perry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22112,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14878\/revisions\/22112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}