MRS. TICH PARKER

Services for Mrs. Tish Parker, 77, of Carthage, Texas, were Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. in Carthage at the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Mackey Buchanan officiated. Interment was at Oaklawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Center, Texas under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home

Mrs. Parker died Saturday, July 26, 2008 in Carthage, Texas.

Mrs. Addie Letitia McCarley Parker was born May 7, 1931 in Center, Texas. She was the only child born to the marriage of Richard Phillip and Muriel Lee Baker McCarley. Tish was a graduate of Pasadena High School with the class of 1949. She studied voice at North Texas State College in Denton and later obtained her degree in music from the University of Houston. A noted vocalist, Tish worked and sang her way through college, and continued her music through T.V. and radio. Known as "A singer of promise", she worked for KGUL - TV and was named "Miss Houston TV" singing with such notables as Jimmy Stuart, Jimmy Durante and Perry Como. She married Jack Runnels Parker June 30, 1953 and together they raised four children in a loving Christian home and celebrated over 54 years of marriage before Jack preceded her in death in 2007. Tish was a longtime devoted member of the First United Methodist Church of Carthage where she taught the women's bible study and was a charter member of the Carthage Service League supporting the Sammy Brown Library.

Survivors are son, Jack R. Parker, Jr. and wife Susie of Lufkin; daughters Toni Moseley and husband Bobby of Longbranch, Perri Browning and husband Pat of Carthage, Penni Mitchell and husband J of Kilgore; sister-in-law: Doris Parker of Center; grandchildren: Parker Moseley of Dotson, Carley Butler of Austin, Mary Kendall Parker of Houston, Esme Thoman of Austin, Phillip Mitchell of Nacogdoches, Britt Mitchell of Austin, Margie Mitchell of Kilgore and Paige Parker of Lufkin; nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

Pallbearers were Parker Moseley, Phillip Mitchell, Britt Mitchell, Bobby Moseley, Pat Browning, Jack Parker, Jr. and J Mitchell.