John Bewley Parker Former Tech High Teacher Dies In Kansas

Services were held at Sterling, Kansas for John Bewley Parker, teacher of agriculture and mechanical drafting in Memphis Technical High School, from 1918-1945, relatives here said yesterday. Mr. Parker died at his home in Sterling about 2 p.m. on Saturday, December 27, 1958. He was 67.

Mr. Parker was born April 4, 1891at Pylesville, Maryland, a son of the senior Presbyterian minister, Albert G. Parker and Jessie Bewley Parker, who pastored in Olney, Illinois from 1907-1912.

He attended schools in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Park College in Missouri and Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Illinois. He served in the U.S. Army during World War 1 and taught briefly in Davenport, Iowa and Louisville, Kentucky.

A member of the Presbyterian Church in McPherson, his father, four brothers and a brother-in-law were or are ordained Presbyterian ministers.

Mr. Parker leaves his wife, Fern (Kirkpatrick) Parker; two sons, Dixon Parker of Vanderbilt University and William Parker of Sterling; six brothers, Graham Parker and Kenneth Parker, Presbyterian missionaries in India; Malcom Parker, Memphis Manfacturers, Donald Parker, history professor at Brookings, S.C.; Elliott Parker of Moline, Illinois, physician and surgeon and Neil Parker an investment advisor at Chicago; a sister, Mrs. J.W. McMillan of Earlville, Illinois.

Burial in McPherson Cemetery, McPherson, KS

Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN – Thursday, January 1, 1959