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Beatrice Ida (Thomas) Parker

Scrapbook

Husband
LL Fox Parker

Children
Martha Elizabeth Parker
William Barrum Parker
Mary Beatrice Parker
Lilburn Louis Fox Parker II
Thomas Edwin Parker
James Jacob Arnold Parker

Father
Sidney Byron Thomas

Mother
Louisiana Elizabeth Little Thomas

Siblings
Allas M. THOMAS
Emma C. THOMAS
Martha E. "Lizzie" THOMAS
Nonnie A. THOMAS
James Lee THOMAS
Charles Sidney THOMAS

Thomas Scrapbook

Parker Scrapbook

Beatrice was born May 24, 1892, in Burleson County, Texas.

Beatrice was a schoolteacher. She received her B.A. & M.A. from Southwest Texas State University, and did refresher work at the University of Southern California.

See her graduation picture.

She married LL Fox Parker on June 14, 1911, in Hix, Burleson, Texas. Read their wedding announcement.

Beatrice was named Lady Senior Citizen of Fayette County for 1973 and October 24, 1976 was declared Mrs. L.L.F. (Beatrice) Parker Day.

Her grandchildren and great grandchildren called her Gran. Gran died on October 23 1982, in Schulenberg, Texas, and was buried October 24, 1982, in Pittman Cemetery in Muldoon, Texas next to her husband.


Nonnie Thomas and Beatrice Thomas.

Beatrice Ida Thomas pictured first and third with friend (second and fourth).

Parker-Thomas.

Last Wednesday evening in the Baptist Church at Hix, Rev. L.F. Parker and Miss Ida Beatrice Thomas were united in marriage by Rev. W.S. Lackey, there being in attendancce a large crowd of friends and relatives of the contracting parties. The bride is the lovely daughter

of Sidney Thomos [sic] of that community where she is well known and has a large circle of friends while the bridegroom is pastor of the Baptist church at Paris, Texas, he having formerly been a resident of this county where he has many friends.
They left the next

day for points in Alabama and will be at home to their friends in Paris after the first of July.

Burleson County Ledger, Caldwell, Burleson Co., Texas, Newspaper, Center for American History, Austin, Texas, 23 Jun 1911, p. 1.

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