In Memory

Robert L. Parrish

Robert L. Parrish

 

       Services for Robert Lee Parish, 28, 3109 Colorado, will be at 2 PM Wednesday at Murdock Funeral Home in Columbus.  Burial will be in Hosey Hill Cemetery at Weir.

       He died Sunday night at a Topeka hospital, where you been admitted December 30.  He had a heart ailment.

       Mr. Perry had owned and operated a grocery store at Lecompton for three years.

       Born September 16, 1943, at Columbus in Cherokee County, he lived in Topeka 13 years.  He was a member of Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church and IOOF Lodge at Leompton.

       He was married to Ruth Mae Cornelius on December 29, 1962.  Survivors besides his widow of the home, include a son, Michael A. Parish and a daughter, Tammy Lynn Parrish, both of the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Parrish, Weir; three sisters, Mrs. Florence Gustine, Pittsburgh, Mrs. Hazel Cresson, Scammon, and Mrs. Mary Lee Roark, Columbus; three brothers, Bill Parrish, Scammon, Jimmy Parrish, Vietnam, and Clyde Parrish, California, and a great grand mother, Mrs. Mae Gates, Wagoner, Oklahoma.

       Ted Tibbitts Mortuary was in charge of Topeka arrangements.

 

 

Published in the Topeka Capital Journal January 3, 1972