Parzedia Gross Suggs

Published courtesy of the Cordell Beacon

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Funeral services for Parzedia Gross Suggs were held January 20, 2003 at the First Baptist Church, Cordell, Oklahoma. Burial was at the Gotebo Cemetery, Gotebo, Oklahoma. Services were officiated by Reverend R.B. Mathis under the direction of Jack Loftiss Funeral Home, Cordell, Oklahoma.

Parzedia was born August 6, 1899 in Rex, Arkansas. She went to her eternal reward January 16, 2003 at the Sandpiper Bay Health Center in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 103 years.

In 1916, Parzedia and John Suggs went to an Old Settlers Reunion at Scotland, Arkansas. While they were there, they decided to get married. They found a Justice of the Peace and were married on August 11, 1916.

They later moved to Snyder, Oklahoma in 1919, and about 6 months later moved to Gotebo where John ran a small dairy. He also worked in the Post Office and for the U.S. Department of Agriculture measuring crop lands.

John and Parzedia moved to Cordell and on December 26, 1968, John passed away. Parzedia continued living in Cordell until 1997 when she moved to Wichita, Kansas to live with her daughter, Wanda Hicks. She remained there until August of 2001. It was at this time that Parzedia moved to the Sandpiper Bay Health Care Center.

Parzedia and John had four children: Harley Suggs and his wife of Spring, Texas, Anita Suggs, who died at the age of three, Wilma Taylor and her husband of Cordell and Wanda Hicks and her husband of Wichita, Kansas. Parzedia had 11 brothers and sisters. Parzedia's grandchildren are Stan and his wife of Carmene, Texas, Joe and his wife of Spring, Texas, Roger, who was killed in a car accident, Marna and her husband of Wichita, Kansas, Susan and her husband of Jacksonville, Florida, and Gregg of Corinth, Texas. Parzedia also had 10 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.