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I Ib •DEATH GOMES TO FRANK PARKER IN DAYTONA. FLORIDAWAS WITH GAS COMPANY INQUINCY FOR MANY iYEARS. If News was received in the city j j Monday by A. L. Hazen, 61S Chest- j nut. of the death in Daytona, Fla., i of Frank Parker, of paralysis, from lt;which he had suffered for about ! two years. Tho body is to be ! brought to Quincy for burial.[ I Regan at Bottom.[ Mr. Parker, who was bom about, : 67 years ago, began his active life i | with the Quincy Gas and Coke com-! j pany when the Corleys were at Its! head, starting as street lamp lighter. ! He worked his way up by degrees, 1• and finally landed at the complaint ! : counter, where he was retained be- ’ j cause of his amiable disposition and• an ability to handle people. ! j When the company was takfen ! j over by the McKinley syndicate, \I ; which also acquired the street car! t system. Mr. Parker remained. Later i | the McKinley people s-old out to a t i I syndicate headed by Jameg T. j .'Lynn, of Detroit, and in the shift-j t : ing about he was left out, but not . | without a protest from tho public.i For a time he was with the Home :! Telephone company, and after its . i consolidation he went to Galesburg ; with tho McKinley company where .•he temained until his health failed• and he went to Florida, which had : been his home ever since. He lastvisited Quincy several year? ago.Leaves Family, i His wife of his second marriage survives. She is secretary of Tho j Associated Charities in Daytona.| There is also a son, Donald, in Cali-■ fornia, and a daughter. Mrs. Mar-i garet J. Condct?, of Chicago; also | a brother in the West., Neysa McMein, the well-knownNew 1 ork artist, is a niece, her ; mother having been Mr. Parker s , sister.
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Quincy Morning Whig Journal
Quincy, Illinois, US
Mon, May 24, 1926
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