Extracted from The Richland Beacon-News (Rayville, LA)
Thursday, April 8, 1999

Bernice Parker

RAYVILLE - Services for Bernice Parker, 70, of Start, Louisiana, were held at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, 1999 at the First United Pentecostal Church near Rayville with the Rev. Robert Stroud and Bros. Len Machen and DeWayne Whittington officiating. Burial followed in the Start Cemetery under the direction of Brown-Holley Funeral Homes of Rayville.

Mrs. Parker died Monday, March 29, 1999. She was preceded in death by her parents, Sarah and Charley Allen.

Mrs. Parker was a homemaker and a member of the First United Pentecostal Church of Rayville.

Survivors include her husband, W. M. Parker of Start, LA; her sons and daughters-in-law - Devon Parker of Start, LA, Joel and Shirley Parker of Rayville, LA, Verlon and Venita Lawrence of Forest, MS, Terry and Sue Parker of Start, LA, Van and Tammy Parker of Rayville, LA, and Mark and Tonya Parker of Start, LA; five daughters and a son-in-law - Florence Taylor of Andrews, TX, Eloise Antley of Atlanta, GA, Rosa Tatum of Monroe, LA, Linda Lawrence of Pineville, LA, and Renea and Alvin May of Start, LA; one sister, Margie Faye Herrington of Monroe, LA; one brother and sister-in-law - Hulen and Charlotte Allen of Start, LA; 49 grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.

Serving as pallbearers were Ronnie McDonnell, Randell Powerll, Larry Allen, Bro. Darvin Rieger, Bro. David Byrd and Bro. Richard Byrd.