This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parr, Grant, Straight Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wl4.2ACEB/488 Message Board Post: I would appreciate any information about Mr. Virgil David Parr, below, such as birth and death as well as the names of his parents. I would also like to determine if Mr. William Parr's widow and/or children are still living. VIRGIL DAVID PARR married JULIA LUCILIA "Lulu" GRANT on April 28, 1909. She was the daughter of WILLIAM GRANT and PERMELIA STRAIGHT and was born January 31, 1877 in Cactus Creek, Norton Cty, KS. She died July 08, 1941 in Minden, Kearney Cty, NE. They were friends and courted for 10 years. They removed the TX with two of her brothers, John Earl and Dwight, in about 1910. Their only child, William Grant Parr was born November 15, 1913 in Palacios, Matagorda Cty, TX In 1918-1919, they moved from Palacios TX to Minden, NE. William Grant Parr was a reporter and reportedly, the first one to report from North Africa in WWII. His obituary follows: William G. Parr Former Minden resident William Grant Parr, 83, of Stonington, Conn., died Thursday, Sept. 11, 1997, at Westerly Hospital in Westerly, R.I. Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at United Methodist Church in Minden, Kearney Cty, NE with the Rev. Manick Samuel officiating. Burial will be in Minden Cemetery. Visitation is 3-5 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Monday at Layton Funeral Home in Minden. Mr. Parr was born Nov. 15, 1913, to Virgil David and Julia Lucelia Parr in Palacios, Texas. He moved with his family to Minden at age 5. He graduated from Minden High School in 1931. He attended Nebraska Wesleyan University. He transferred to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to major in journalism. He was night editor for the Lincoln Journal Star while completing his bachelor's degree. He graduated from Columbia School of Journalism in New York City in 1939 with a master's degree in journalism. He moved to Cairo, Egypt, where he taught at American University. During World War II he worked for NBC covering news in Cairo and later Rome and Vienna. At the same time he was correspondent to the New York Times for the Middle East. He broadcast regularly for NBC throughout the war. He was correspondent for the Egyptian Press at the United Nations from 1946-47. In late 1947 he joined the United States Information Agency. He served as public affairs officer in Damascus, Syria, and ! Hamburg, Germany. He was Information Officer in New Delhi, India, and later Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 1970 he retired. He divided his time between Cadaques, Spain, and Stonington, Conn. Survivors are his wife, Penelope; one son, Stevens of North Stonington, Conn.; and one daughter, Julia of Surrey, United Kingdom.