Phyllis June Parker

Phyllis Parker went to her heavenly home on Friday, February 10th, 2023, after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. She was 85 years old. She was a beloved mom, grandma, family member, friend and teacher.

Phyllis is survived by her sons and daughters in law, Edwin and Ellen, Alex and Holly, Edwin’s children Cody, Sebastian, and Liam, and Alex and Holly’s children Ryan and Brady, as well as many loving family members, friends and students. On that day, she was reunited with her husband, Ed; sister, Susan; father, Phil; and mothers, Caroline and June.

Phyllis was a proud graduate of TCU, an ordained minister and she held degrees in History, English, Religion and Theater. After all of those degrees, you did not want to play Trivial Pursuit with her and as she liked to put it, she was “show trash,” but really, she was a teacher. A teacher in her heart and in her soul. She taught countless numbers of students at MacArthur High School and Bradley Middle School in San Antonio who would tell you that they would never forget that red headed, crazy but amazing history teacher that would dance the Charleston on top of a table while teaching about the Jazz Age, or take the mic from the tour guide on a student trip to Washington DC and tell stories that even the guide didn’t know. She loved to teach. Her love of history led her to genealogy where she was SO EXCITED to be able to trace her family in America to before the American Revolution. She felt like she was a part of the history that she loved to teach by being a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and because of her dad’s decorated service in WWII. In her later years, still being the history teacher that she was, she put together stories of her childhood and what life was like for her for her grandkids, ever wanting to leave a legacy. These stories and anecdotes will be cherished in her family for many generations to come, as will memories of this amazing woman for anyone that knew her.

Services will be held at the Laurel Land Chapel in Dallas, Texas, Laurel Land Memorial Park, 6300 South R.L. Thornton Freeway, Dallas, TX 75232. where she will be laid to rest at 10 AM on Saturday, February 18. The family will host a visitation from 8-10 AM on the 18th as well.

Flowers can be sent to Laurel Land (Dallas) or she would have loved for donations to be made in her honor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.laurellanddallas.com for the Parker family.