IDA WARE PARKER, 84, of 3015 Mt. Olive, homemaker, died Sunday at Methodist Hospital after a stroke. Services will be at noon Saturday at World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church, where she was a choir member, with burial in Galilee Memorial Gardens. N. H. Owens & Son Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Parker, the widow of Will Parker, leaves three sisters, Virgie Branch of Chicago, and Rebecca Crump and Carrie Page, both of Memphis, five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Source:  Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) – Wednesday, June 23, 1999