McClain County, Oklahoma
Obituaries


Blanche Leona Parr
Submitted by: Janie Lantz


    SURNAMES: PARR/SMITH

    Blanche Leona Parr, 73, of 218 East Broadway, passed away April 18, 1999 at Heartland Heartland Health Care Center in Three Rivers, Michigan. She was born October 21, 1925 in Purcell, Okla. the daughter of Jack S. and Jewell F. (Burkett) Smith. Blanche moved to Michigan in 1953 from Arkansas, and was employed by Eddy Paper Mill, Fonda Corporation (formerly Continental Can Co.), and the Three Rivers Dairy Bar. Mrs. Parr was preceded in death by her loving husband, James Clifton Parr, who she married on September 18, 1943 in Caldwell, Ark, and passed away on February 15, 1990, parents, and one brother, J. W. (Buddy) Smith. She is survived by three children, Helen "Wanda" (George) Carter, of North Pole, Alaska, James Harold (Mary Lou) Parr, of Lake Mary, Florida, and Bobby Jack (Tammy) Parr of Waynesville, North Carolina, eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, two sisters, Violet Quinn of Burr Oak, and Janie (Floyd) Lantz of Goshen, Indiana, one brother Jack K.(Mary) Smith of Lebanon, Missouri. Visitation will be held 2-4 and 6-8 p. m. on Wednesday, April 21 at the Hohner Funeral Home, where the family will be present. Funeral services will be held 11:00 a. m. on Thursday, April 22 at the Hohner Funeral Home, with Pastor Homer Yoder officiating. Interment will take place in Riverside Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the Heartland Health.