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RoseAnn Vrla Parma
30 Nov 1929 – 26 Dec 2011
| Birth | 30 Nov 1929 |
| Death | 26 Dec 2011 |
| Cemetery | Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery Dallas , Dallas County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | 46844902 on 29 Dec 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82548663 |
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RoseAnn (Vrla) Parma passed away peacefully in Dallas, TX on December 26, 2011. She was born in Dallas at the old St. Paul Hospital on November 30, 1929, the daughter of Helen Matous Vrla and Joe E. Vrla. RoseAnn lived in Irving many years, caring for her husband, Eugene, and their six children. She was preceded in death her loving husband, parents, and sister, Helen Jo Vrla. She is survived by her daughters Marilyn Fulbright and husband Ed of Dallas, Patricia Jenkins and husband Bill of Dallas, Leanne Cannon and husband Terry of Dallas; sons Daryl Parma and wife Teresa Gainer of Uniontown, Ohio, Scott Parma and wife Lisa Norris of Keller, and Anthony Parma of Glenn Heights; seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. RoseAnn grew up on pastureland at the corner of Knox Avenue and Keating which is now Knox and Central Expressway. She graduated from N. Dallas High School in 1948 where she was an accomplished gymnast and competed with the Sokol Gymnastics Team nationally. She attended North Texas Agricultural College (UTA) and received an Associate degree in Business. She met her husband, Eugene Clayton Parma, from Ennis, at a Texas A&M College mixer and later were married on July 17, 1950 at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Dallas. RoseAnn began her career in 1951 in Longview, TX at LeTourneau Technologies. Later, she held positions at Chance Vaught, the Wall Street Journal, Romco Equipment Co. (formerly R. O. Mullins Co.), and retired from Allstate Insurance. RoseAnn was a beloved Girl Scout Leader at Immaculate Conception in Grand Prairie and St. Luke in Irving where she served as an officer for the Altar Society and Extraordinary Minister and was elected Diocesan Women of the Year in 2007. Her hobbies included camping, baking her family Czech recipes, sewing party dresses for her daughters and dancing the Beseda with her family and friends in special events throughout the US and overseas. She and her husband celebrated their Czech heritage, belonging to several organizations including S.P.J.S.T. Lodge 130 & 84, the Catholic Czech Club, and the Dallas Beseda Dancers. RoseAnn was under the loving care of the Sisters of Bethlemite at St. Joseph's Residence in Dallas before Hospice. The family will receive guests at 6 PM prior to a Holy Rosary Service held in her honor at 7 PM, on Thursday, December 29, 2011. A Requiem Mass will be held at 10 AM on Friday, December 30, at St. Luke Catholic Church, 202 S. MacArthur, Irving, 75060; with burial to follow at Dallas/Fort Worth National Cemetery. The family requests that memorials be made to St. Joseph's Residence, 330 W. Pembroke, Dallas, Texas 75208. Published in Dallas Morning News from December 28 to December 29, 2011
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