Wahkiakum Eagle-May 1999

PARKER, Sidney
	
  Age 90, a long time resident of Wahkiakum County, died in a Cathlamet 
nursing home.  He was born in Toronto, Canada, to Fred and Ethel L. 
(Gardner) Parker.
  The family moved to the United States and he graduated from high 
school at Huntington, Calif.  He married his wife, Mary on November 24, 
1930 in Yuma, Ariz.
  He became a dairy farmer in Tillamook, Ore., moved to Wahkiakum 
County in 1939 and to Skamokawa in 1943 where he continued dairy 
farming until the early sixties.  He served as Wahkiakum County 
Assessor from 1958 to 1974 and had also been a county commissioner.  He 
was an active Grange member serving as: Master and Treasurer of 
Skamokawa Grange; Director of Grange Insurance; Master of Wahkiakum 
Pomona Grange; Deputy Master and Treasurer of Washington State Grange.  
He was a commissioner of Cemetery District 2; member of the Dairy 
Products Commissions under Gov. Langley; and a layleader of the 
Skamokawa Methodist Church.
  He was the last living charter member of the Wahkiakum Lions club 
serving as an officer in many capacities.  His hobbies included flower 
gardening.
  Survivors include three sons, Richard of Montesano, Charles of 
Skamokawa and Michael of Cathlamet; two daughter, Beverly Moonen of 
Skamokawa and Anita Beyers of Salem, Ore.; 10 grandchildren; 21 great-
grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
  His wife Mary died in 1995.  He was also preceded in death by three 
brothers, Warren, Ray and Cliff and a great-great-granddaughter, Felica 
in 1997.
  Funeral services were Friday at the Skamokawa United Methodist church 
with Pastor Bob Corlett officiating.
  Dowling Funeral Home was in charge.



Fern Hill Cemetery-Skamokawa, Wa.
08 Aug 1908-04 May 1999
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society 2007 from 
original newspaper collection.)