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Nellie Goree Oliver Parker

13 Apr 1912 – 25 Mar 2001

Birth	13 Apr 1912
Death	25 Mar 2001
Cemetery	Shepherd City Cemetery Shepherd , San Jacinto County , Texas , USA
Added by	Marion K. Parker on 05 Aug 2010
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10853365

Bio

Nellie Goree "Granny" Parker was the daughter of Sterling Niblett Oliver and Mattie Malinda Wood. After the death of her mother, Nellie lived with her maternal uncle and aunt, Charlie and Willie Wood. They lived on the Filler Farm at Urbana and at Egypt. She also lived in Oakwood, Texas, in Nebraska, and in Vermont, where her husband Wade Unum Parker worked on the pipeline. They were married September 15, 1930, in San Jacinto County, Texas. Most of her life was lived in San Jacinto County, where she worked in several of the stores in Shepherd. Mainly, she is remembered as being the rural mail lady for the US Postal Service, from which she retired. She spent her last years in the nursing home at Shepherd. Her children were: Russell Eugene, Eloise, James Cecil, and Vernon Wade. She outlived all of her children. In her final years, was cared for by her daughter-in-law, Melba Slack Cronin Parker.

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Family

Parents

• Sterling Niblet "Ned" Oliver 1875–1938
• Mattie Malinda Wood Oliver 1877–1913

Spouse

• Wade Unum Parker 1911–1983

Siblings

• Sterling Brevard Oliver 1897–1968
• William M. Oliver 1899–1977
• Frank Reed Oliver 1905–1976
• Eugene Bailey Oliver 1908–1909
• Rufus Daniel Oliver 1910–1935

Children

• Russell Eugene "Bud" Parker 1931–1982
• Eloise Parker Durr 1933–1983
• James Cecil Parker 1935–1994
• Vernon Wade Parker 1939–1975

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