Born December 15, 1921 in Duncan, OK.
Went to be with our Lord May 4, 2019 at the Heights of Bulverde in Spring Branch, TX.
After moving to Houston, TX when she was 6 months old, she graduated from Sam Houston High School and Comptometer Business School in Houston. She worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone and Lykes Brothers Steamship Company in Houston. Married the love of her life, William Alfred Parker, in 1942. When he came home from WWII in 1946, they moved to Baytown so he could continue working for Humble Oil & Refining (a.k.a. Exxon Refinery). They had two daughters, Aline Ruth Parker Henderson and Betty Sue Parker Prollock. In the 1960’s she went to work at Sears in Baytown and Weingarten’s Corporate Office in Houston. In 1976 she went to work at Lee College as a Technical Vocation Secretary and retired in 1986.
Her biggest joys in her life were family, singing, teaching, giving Bibles and being an inspiration to all that knew her. She sang in Billy Graham Crusades in the choir under the direction of George Beverly Shae. She always sang in church choirs and was a member of the Singing Saints at Memorial Baptist Church in Baytown, TX. She was a Sunday School teacher for many years at First Baptist Church in Baytown. She was part of the Bible Ministry at Huntsville State Prison. She also made it her mission to make sure everyone she met had a Bible. She read her Bible every morning with her cup of coffee until she lost her eye sight in her mid-80’s. By then she pretty much had it memorized, but would love to have it read to her. Her family was her next greatest love. Holding a baby would make her beam, even if it wasn’t always her own grandchild or great-grandchild. She had a freezer dedicated to ice cream for her grandkids and their friends. She loved to have family and friends come over for a visit or dinner, but if we went out, it was for fried catfish with lots of tartar sauce! She had a great sense of humor and would never be able to finish a funny story because she would be laughing too hard. We loved her stories that were seldom finished, but always ended with everyone laughing.
Waiting in Heaven for her were her parents, Henry Estus Bennett, Sr. and Mary Catherine Grant Bennett, all of her siblings, Lola Faye Bennett Casanover, Billie Estulene Bennett Myers, Anna Bette Bennett Kern, Henry Estus Bennett, Jr. (Sonny Boy), and George Grant Bennett, and many of her nieces and nephews.
Waiting to join her later in Heaven are her two daughters, Aline Ruth Parker Henderson and Betty Sue Parker Prollock, their husbands, Glenn Edward Henderson and Brian Dean Prollock, Sr., respectively, and their children, Jaclyn Rose Henderson Elliott, Emily Ruth Henderson McIntyre, Chad Edward Henderson, Brian Dean Prollock, Jr., and Benjamin Levi Prollock. Sue’s great-grandkids are Kenneth Ryan Parnell, Kylie Starr Henderson, Tristan Oliver McIntyre, Jacob Gunner King and Nova Ray Prollock.
Her graveside service will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in the Pavilion at Earthman Memory Gardens Cemetery in Baytown, TX at 2:00 pm where she will be laid to rest next to her husband.
Her Celebration of Life Service will be on Saturday, May 11, 2019, at Grace Fellowship Baptist Church in Bulverde, TX at 2:00 pm.
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