Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme -- "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" (original post can be found here at No Story Too Small. She started the challenge in January of 2014 but I have just now run across the challenge so I am starting late. It is a wonderful research tool for getting to know your ancestors.
Charles Eugene Parker
Charles Eugene Parker was born 11 April 1920 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri to parents Robert Floyd Parker and Carrie Louvica Rector. He died 19 January 2010 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. Charles was cremated in January 2010 and his ashes were buried in April 2010 at Crown Hill Cemetery in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri.
Charles Eugene Parker married first to Dorothy Marie Watson on 12 August 1939 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. Dorothy was born 03 November 1922 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri to parents Oscar Samuel Watson and Nora Lee Fleming. She died 04 December 1970 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. She was buried in December 1970 at Crown Hill Cemetery, in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri.
(Charles and Dorothy were my grandparents. To this day they can count for their legacy 6 children, 17 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren, and 3 great-great-grandchildren.)
After Dorothy's death, Charles remarried to Alberta McNiece-White Gunther in 1972 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. Alberta was born 31 May 1918 in New Orleans, Nebraska to parents Albert James White and Anna Sophia Herr. She died 8 July 2006 in Lincoln, Benton County, Missouri. Alberta was buried at Floral Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri next to her first husband and only child (from first husband).
Grandpa Parker, as I have always called him, owned his own optometry shop in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri. It was located on Noland Road. I remember getting to go and visit him and he used to check my eyesight for me before he retired. One of his special mementos was a hand-written letter to him from President Harry S. Truman, thanking him for the eyeglasses Grandpa made him. The eyeglasses and the letter were donated to the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, located in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri.
I have no memories of Grandma Parker as she died just a couple of months before I was born. That is not to say though that she had no bearing on my life.
Grandma Alberta was a wonderful lady. She always treated us grand-kids as if we were her own...we pretty much all were as a majority of us were born after Grandpa and her were married. Grandma Alberta always had Cinnamon Apple slices available for us to snack on -- she did her own canning.
Family Tree of Charles Eugene Parker
| Generation Number | Name | Birth year | Death year |
| 1 | Keegan Leigh Scherer | Living | Living |
| 2 | Kathleen Marie Biswell | Living | Living |
| 3 | Laurie Sue Kelley | Living | Living |
| 4 | Debra Sue Parker | Living | Living |
| 5 | Charles Eugene Parker | 1920 | 2010 |
| 6 | Robert Floyd Parker | 1897 | 1972 |
| 7 | Ellsworth Eli Parker | 1872 | 1941 |
| 8 | Robert Little Parker | 1840 | 1910 |
| 9 | Eli Ellsworth Parker | 1812 | ? |
| 10 | John D. Parker | 1770 | 1844 |
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