This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ROBSON, ROBELING, PARKER, MASSENGILL, REECE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZkB.2ACI/1890.1 Message Board Post: Lawanda PARKER born 1920 Wichita Falls, Wichita co, TX came from a wealthy family. Her father, of American Indian descent, was an "oil man," and her step father was from the MASSENGILL family. She attended the HOCKADAY School in Dallas, Texas and graduated from their Junior College at age 20 with the class of 1941. In March 1940, the year before Lawanda PARKER graduated her 16 yr old brother, Jimmy PARKER died in an automobile accident. When her step-father, John Tipton MASSENGILL died Dec 1946 in Wichita Falls, Texas, LaWanda was listed as a survivorin his obituary as Mrs. Lawanda ROBSON of Wichita Falls, Texas. I wonder if LaWanda's husband was from Dallas? LaWanda's Uncle, Frank DeFRIECE told me that Lawanda worked for the American Red Cross in Germany during or after WW2 and she married a ROEBLING of the family who were suspension bridge builders (ie. the Brooklyn Bridge, etc). Is there any alumnae of Hockaday School who rememberw Lawanda PARKER -ROBSON? Please c! ontact me: Mary K. Ward, 1432 Yeardley Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23225; ph: 804-232-9338. Thanks!