This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker, Rhoades, Mortimer, Flackus, Buske, Davis, VanDerWarker, DeGoede, Shepardson, West, Stowell, Isaacson, Freeman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/11809 Message Board Post: PJ: Oct., 1967: Funeral services were held this morning in Klamath Falls, Ore., for Clarence A. Parker, formerly of the Town of Ellery, who died Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 31, 1967) at his winter home in Klamath Falls. Burial was in the Bonanza, Ore., Cemetery. Mr. Parker was born in the Town of Ellery April 6, 1891, the son of Ernest R. and Allie Rhoades Parker, a descendant of settlers who came to Chautauqua County, from Rhode Island soon after the Revolutionary War to take up land at Maple Grove in the Town of Ellery. The Parkers gave the first acre of land for a schoolhouse in this area, the same site on which Maple Grove Junior Senior High School has been built. Mr. Parker's early years were closely interwoven with the old school. His father and later a sister taught there. Mr. Parker went west as a young man, working as lumberjack, cowpuncher, gold prospector, scout and trapper through out the west, and at one time served as foreman of the well-known Day Ranch in Southern California. He settled later in Klamath County, Ore., where he owned a 1,100 acre ranch. He served in World War I, later working for a short time with the U.S. Government in Washington, D.C., where he met Elizabeth Mortimer of Delphos, Kan., homemakinng teacher. They were married April 15, 1924, and returned to his Oregon homestead. Mr. Parker had been a frequent visitor to this area in recent years. He also spent time visiting his children in the southwest and in Oregon and had just moved into town Sunday for the winter. Survivors are his wife, Elizabeth Parker; four daughters, Mrs. Victor Flackus of Klamath Falls; Mrs. J. S. Buske of Abernethy, Tex.; Mrs. Melvin Davis of Pagosa Springs, Colo., and Mrs. Hugh Davis of Bronanza, Ore.; eight grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Ross VanDerWarker and Mrs. W. A. DeGoede, both of Jamestown and Mrs. Walter H. Shepardson of Bemus Point; four nieces, Mrs. Floyd West, Sugargrove, Pa.; Mrs. Carl J. Stowell and Mrs. Oke Isaacson, both of Bemus Point, and Mrs. Gary Freeman of Keene, N.H. and many grandnieces and grandnephews.