SUE PARKER
ADA-Graveside services for Mary Sue Elizabeth Parker, 77, Ada, were held at an earlier date at Memorial Park Cemetery, Rev. Carol Reich officiated.
Mrs. Parker died on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 in Ada. She was born August 21, 1930, at Ada, Oklahoma to Richard D. and Ada Aldridge Runyans. She attended school at Ada and graduated from Horace Mann High School. She was retired as a beauty operator and business owner. She and her husband opened State Beauty Supply Company in Ada in 1962. She was a volunteer at Carl Albert Hospital for 15 years and a member of Asbury United Methodist Church in Ada.
She married Billy Joe Parker on September 4, 1948, in Van Alstyne, Texas.
Survivors include her husband, Billy Joe Parker, of the home; a son, Russell S. Parker, Burleson, Texas; a daughter, Gretchen S. Johnson, Melbourne, Florida; and two grandsons, Zac W. Abbott, Norman, Oklahoma; and Brandon R. Parker, Burleson, Texas.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the Halo Hospice, 1298 North Hills Shopping Center, Lonnie Abbott Blvd., Ada, OK 74820.
Criswell Funeral Home