Dr. L. A. Parker - Sunday, September 27, 1936

    Funeral services for Dr. L. A. Parker, one of the most prominent physicians of Hardin County, who died at his home in Saltillo after an illness of several months, were held Tuesday morning wiht burial in Shady Grove Cemetery.

    Dr. Parker was born at Saltillo in 1876 and had practiced there almost 40 years.  A leader in civic affairs, he was a member of the Methodist church and of Tennessee Lodge No. 629, F. and A. M.

    He leaves his widow, Mrs. Cora Keeton Parker, a son, Wallace and two grandchildren, Wallace Allen and Betty Ann Parker.

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Dr. L. A. Parker, Beloved Physician and Neighbor

    On Sunday night, September 27, the Death Angel passed over our town and removed from our midst our beloved physician and neighbor, Dr. L. A. Parker.  His wife, son, and daughter-in-law were at his bedside when he passed away and had faithfully and lovingly attended him during his long weeks of illness.  To them the hearts of a multitude of friends go out in deepest sympathy, as to the little grandchildren whom he so loved and to whom he has left the "priceless heritage of a stainless name."

    For many years Dr. Parker gave his best of skill and experience to the sick and suffering of this community and was considered the best diagnostitician in the county.  In the trying days of last winter he waged an untiring war against pneumonia that threatened our village.  Day and night he gave unstintedly of his strength and energy in teh struggle, and from this strain he never fully recovered.  As truly as any hero of a battlefield, he gave his life in the service of humanity.

    As a citizen he had no superior and few equals, always doing his part in civic, fraternal and religious affairs.  He stood for the right against all forms of immorality and evil, yet was conservative and tolerant in his judgement, kindly in his treatment of everyone.  A good neighbor, a true and dependable friend--

"He was a man, and take it all in all,
We ne'er shall look upon his like again."

                                                                A Friend