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Bernadine Briggs Parcher © Roberts and Son Funeral Home 11-2016 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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March 7, 1927 - November 15, 2016
Bernadene Parcher, 89, passed gently from this life the night of Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at Hillcrest Manor nursing home in Blackwell, Oklahoma. She was the wife of the late Jack Parcher of Braman, Oklahoma. They shared 59 years of marriage together. In the last few years of her life, she always insisted the Manor was her home and often bragged on HER nurses and their graciousness.
Bernadene was born in Blackwell, Oklahoma on March 7, 1927, the daughter of Fred and Sara Briggs. She was raised around the Briggs Creamery, which was run by her parents, where from a young age, she worked scooping ice cream for many happy customers. Her claim to fame was having been able to dip out seven cones at once, holding them all in a single hand while spectators gathered to watch. Bernadene spoke of many customers visiting the creamery in order to see her demonstrate this feat. She later attended Blackwell High School, where she graduated in 1944.
After high school, Bernadene attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and later Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where she majored in organ. In later years, standing over the small organ in the back room of her house with her grandchildren, she would say she would have rather studied something different in college, but her mother really wanted her to study the organ, so she did it to make her mother happy.
On February 27, 1950, Bernadene married Jack Parcher, and the two settled down to country life on their farm north of Braman. They had three children: James Jay, Jaqueline Lynn, and Carl William. She spent many hours with her kids out in the yard playing ball and even warming them up before baseball games by throwing them grounders. In the 22 years there was a kid in the household, her children say it’s possible she might not have missed a single one of their games.
Bernadene attended the Methodist Church in Braman with the children while they were growing up, and in later years she claimed the Blackwell Church of Christ as her home congregation.
Bernadene held jobs at the Ed Johnson Grain Co., Braum’s, Shepherds, and South Haven Travel Plaza during her working years, but her children remember fondly her years as a stay-at-home mother and housewife. They remember dinners at Dairy Queen as a Sunday night tradition, whether Bernadene just hadn’t wanted to cook that night, or they had all just liked ice cream that much.
She was an avid golfer and bowler in her younger years and enjoyed watching “the golf” on television, especially when Phil Mickelson was playing. She loved to travel to Las Vegas with her husband Jack, and as she fondly recalled to one of her grandkids one summer day, “We just had a ball during the 70’s.” She spoke often of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and cited having met Bill Cosby in a gift shop one trip.
Her grandchildren will always remember the sleep-overs at grandma’s, of which there were many, and the late nights spent watching Pee Wee Herman and Nick at Nite, especially I Love Lucy and Days of Our Lives. They remember the trips to Braum’s, the Coca-Cola and chocolate ice cream, and her big smile—her greeting of “Hey, Kid,” every time she would see one of them. They remember Olympic figure skating being on her t.v. all the time back in the old days and QVC always. They will miss her dearly.
In the last few years of her life, which she spent at Hillcrest Manor, she would speak fondly with a smile on her face about her fellow residents and friends who would stop by her room every chance they got for the chocolates she kept on hand for them. In her last year at the Manor, Bernadene received honors such as Smile of the Month and Valentine’s Queen 2016.
In her years of life, Bernadene was many things: she was a wife, a mother, a homemaker, a grandmother, and later a great-grandmother, but she was also a great friend. Those who knew her sunshine will never forget her legacy and the sweet memories she leaves behind.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Jack Parcher; one brother, Bill Briggs; also two sisters, Beverly Clarke, and Barbara Yocam.
She is survived by her three children, Jim Parcher and his wife Lisa of Ponca City, OK, Jackie Reed and her husband David of Blackwell, OK, Carl Parcher and his wife Rena of Braman, OK, nine grandchildren, Kent Parcher of Fayetteville, AR, Kelli Palmer and her husband Lonnie of Fort Smith, AR, Eric Reed and his wife Kelly of Rowlett, TX, Sarah Rockford and her husband Chris of Moore, OK, Jon Reed and his wife Melissa of Bixby, OK, Matthew Parcher of Braman, OK, Christopher Parcher of Moore, OK, Jacob Parcher of Braman, OK, Erikah Parcher of Edmond, OK, nine great-grandchildren, Kassidy Parcher of Okmulgee, OK, Kendall Parcher of Okmulgee, OK, Haylee Parcher of Fort Smith, AR, Amoriana Palmer of Fort Smith, AR, Aniya Palmer of Fort Smith, AR, Boston Rockford of Moore, OK, Blythe Reed of Rowlett, TX, Rylee Reed of Bixby, OK, and Remi Reed of Bixby, OK.
Bernadene’s grandchildren will serve as honorary pallbearers.
A memorial service is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Saturday, November 26th in the Roberts and Son Funeral Home in Blackwell with Lanny Jobe of the Blackwell Church of Christ officiating. Burial will follow in the Braman Cemetery.
A memorial has been established in her honor with the Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home Activity Fund in c/o Roberts and Son Funeral Home, 120 W. Padon, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74631.
Jack Glen Parcher © Roberts and Son Funeral Home 06-2009 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
© Roberts and Son Funeral Home
April 7, 1924 - June 17, 2009
Jack Glen Parcher of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Wednesday afternoon, June 17, 2009, in the Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home in Blackwell at the age of 85 years.
Jack Glen Parcher was born April 7, 1924 to Goldie Pearl Toepfer and Glen Parcher in Blackwell, Oklahoma. The family moved to White Deer, Texas where Jack enjoyed his growing years, graduating from White Deer High School in 1941.
In 1943 Jack entered the United States Army where he became an instructor in the maintenance of armor at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He moved on to serve as a part of the testing unit for motorized amphibious vehicles designed for use in the Normandy invasion and proudly drove the very first test jeep into the water. Jack was later transferred to Europe where he was assigned to Headquarters Company, 1156 Combat Engineering Group and served under the command of General George S. Patton and his famous drive across France into Germany. Following his discharge from the Army in 1946, Jack returned to Blackwell where he began a 55 year farming career. In 1946 from the seat of his Harley, which he made several cross country trips on, he met Bernadene Briggs of Blackwell from which began a 59 year marriage. Jack and Bernie have three children, 9 nine grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.
Jack is survived by his wife Bernadene of the home; three children and their spouses, James Jay Parcher and Lisa Parcher of Atlanta, Georgia, Jacqueline Lynn Parcher Reed and David Reed of Edmond, Oklahoma, and Carl William Parcher and Rena Parcher of Braman, Oklahoma; nine grandchildren, Kent Parcher, Sarah Reed, Jon Reed and wife Melissa, Eric Reed and wife Kelly, Matthew Parcher, Kelly Parcher, Christopher Parcher, Jacob Parcher, Erikah Parcher and four great grandchildren. He is also survived by three sisters, Marilyn Turner, Sue Ann Roberts and Billie Garner; and cousins, Max and Carolyn Moore and Bebe Jo and Cliff Bass.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Bob Parcher.
Graveside services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Saturday, June 20th in the Braman Cemetery with the Rev. Eric Dittman of the First Presbyterian Church in Blackwell, officiating. Burial will follow in the Braman Cemetery with military rites performed by the Blackwell American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Honorary pallbearers will be all of Jack’s good friends and neighbors, too many to choose only a few.
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