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Adail Kubin Parma
7 Jul 1929 – 6 Aug 2021
| Birth | 7 Jul 1929 |
| Death | 6 Aug 2021 |
| Cemetery | Saint Joseph Cemetery Ennis , Ellis County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | snipps on 08 Nov 2021 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230569730 |
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Adail Kubin Parma, 92, passed away on August 6, 2021. The family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 p.m., with Rosary at 7:00 p.m., on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, at J. E. Keever Mortuary. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 11, 2021, at St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church in Ennis, Texas. Interment will be held at St. Joseph Cemetery immediately following. Adail was born in Ellis County, Texas, on July 7, 1929, to the late John F. Kubin and Rosie (Ruzena) Zajic Kubin. She was the sixth of eight first-generation Czech-American siblings, whom she loved dearly. As a young girl, many of her stories were of life on the farm and her precious family. She lost her father at the age of 9 and watched her mother and brother, Johnny provide for the family. She admired her mother for her work ethic, resilience, faith in God, and loving nature, and often referred to her as a 'strong Czech woman.' She modeled herself after her mother by putting God first, family second, and career third, and passed this legacy on to her children and grandchildren. She attended grade schools in Rice and Ennis, Central High through her junior year, and then graduated from Ennis High School in 1946. After high school, Adail attended Elliot's Business College in Dallas. Her first position was at a major insurance company; she commuted from Ennis daily, taking the bus into Dallas and then the trolley to work. In 1946, she met Edward J. Parma and they married on November 23, 1948. Adail soon found herself sharing Edward's passion for gymnastics. She was a natural; they each won national championships for best "all-around" gymnast but, unfortunately, never in the same year. They enjoyed life-long friendships with the many gymnasts of the Sokol Karel Havlicek Borovsky in Ennis. They also shared a love of music and dancing at the halls. Edward and Adail loved each other through 69 years of marriage, until his passing in 2018. In 1953, she started her career at Leggett & Platt in Ennis, where she achieved multiple positions including office manager and executive assistant. In 1978, she became the first woman branch manager before retiring as plant manager at the end of 2008. Adail and Edward raised five children with the same values of hard work and fun play. As a family they often were helping in the family grocery store, re-stocking shelves on Thursday nights, cleaning the store windows during Memorial Day weekend, or prepping the Christmas trees for sale the day after Thanksgiving. Everything was a family affair. Adail's personal hobbies were baking, sewing, planning parties for her family, and traveling, including yearly trips to Las Vegas and Albuquerque's Balloon Fiesta. Adail was a woman who played many roles: wife, mother, "Nana," sister, friend, and mentor. She was also a devoted church member of St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church and K.J.Z.T Society No.16-Ennis. She was preceded in death by her husband; and grandson, Eric Parma; and siblings: Mildred Hubacek, John Kubin, Wilma Kasper, Ardrie Honza, Vlasta Knize, Geraldine Nekuza, and Alvin Kubin. Survivors include her children: Sandra McLemore and her husband, Steve (Frisco), Ginger Bush and her husband, Tim (Ennis), Edward Parma, Jr. and his wife, Carole (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Adrianne Lee and her husband, James (Dallas), and Jason Parma (Ennis); ten grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Geraldine Kubin; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
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