Occupation: Filling Station Operator
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Clark Parrish Is Killed New Year's
Clark Parrish of Baring, 46 years old, was killed at 8:45 o'clock the evening of New Year's Day, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1955, when his car, a 1950 Chevrolet, ran off the fill of Highway 15 south of the Fabius bridge a half mile north of Edina and was demolished.
The State Highway Patrol said Mr. Parrish's car, which he was driving to Edina from Baring, sideswiped on the bridge a Plymouth being driven north by Mrs. John McManus of Baring. Mrs. McManus was not hurt and her car was only slightly damaged.
The Parrish automobile traveled many feet before leaving the highway fill on the east, or left side, hugged the fill a considerable distance, leaving only the right tire marks in snow, then hurtled into the air a distance of about fifteen yards, apparently landing on its top.
The next mark was about fifteen yards farther south and beyond a fence, which the car took out, and was on the south slope of a small draw. The slope of the draw apparently glanced the car back westward and upward, for the car next struck a Missouri Power * Light Company pole about eight feet up, breaking off the pole, which was run through the car body. The entire distance from the south abutment of the bridge to where the car struck the pole and stopped was 400 feet. It is believed it had sideswiped the McManus car about the middle of the bridge.
Mr. Parrish was hurrying to the Gibson Hospital here, where his son, Joseph Wayne Parrish, had been brought earlier in the evening and was to undergo an emergency appendicitis operation at 9 o'clock. The operation went ahead as planned without the boy knowing of his father's death.
Dr. R. B. Mabrey, coroner of Knox County, pronounced Mr. Parrish dead at the scene of the accident. He did not order an inquest.
Mr. Parrish's body was brought to the Hudson Funeral Home here from where it was taken at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon to the residence in Baring. Funeral services were at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Greensburg Christian Church by the Rev. Archie Cooper of Kirksville. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Parrish is survived by his wife; nine children Howard Dale Parrish of Memphis, Joseph Wayne Parrish of Baring, Marv Alice, Mrs. Glenn Funk of Hurdland, Pvt. Donald Ray Parrish, who is stationed at Ft. Louis, Wash., and five daughters at home, Shirley Ann, Barbara Louise, Dorothy Jean and Carolyn Mae and Marilyn Fay, twins at home; right brothers and sisters, Homer Parrish of La Plata, Elmer Parrish of Denver, Colo., Austin Parrish of Knox City, John Parrish of near Novelty, Elsie, Mrs. Bruce Clary of Edina, Fay, Mrs. Ira Davis of La Belle, Bessie, Mrs. Jake Jackson of Derby, Colo., and Ethel, Mrs. William Peters of Hannibal, and eight grandchildren.
Joseph Clark Parrish was a son of David Eli and Mary Augusta Zunker Parrish and was born near Novelty Aug. 4, 1908. He was married in June, 1926, to Ada Myrtle Kiesow and the nine children mentioned were born to them.
Mr. Parrish lived his entire life in the Knox County community and lived the last two years in Baring, where he was employed at the Corbin Service Station. Prior to that Mr. Parrish farmed.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri, 06 Jan 1955, Thu • Page 1, Column 1
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Clark Parrish Is Killed New Year's
Clark Parrish of Baring, 46 years old, was killed at 8:45 o'clock the evening of New Year's Day, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1955, when his car, a 1950 Chevrolet, ran off the fill of Highway 15 south of the Fabius bridge a half mile north of Edina and was demolished.
The State Highway Patrol said Mr. Parrish's car, which he was driving to Edina from Baring, sideswiped on the bridge a Plymouth being driven north by Mrs. John McManus of Baring. Mrs. McManus was not hurt and her car was only slightly damaged.
The Parrish automobile traveled many feet before leaving the highway fill on the east, or left side, hugged the fill a considerable distance, leaving only the right tire marks in snow, then hurtled into the air a distance of about fifteen yards, apparently landing on its top.
The next mark was about fifteen yards farther south and beyond a fence, which the car took out, and was on the south slope of a small draw. The slope of the draw apparently glanced the car back westward and upward, for the car next struck a Missouri Power * Light Company pole about eight feet up, breaking off the pole, which was run through the car body. The entire distance from the south abutment of the bridge to where the car struck the pole and stopped was 400 feet. It is believed it had sideswiped the McManus car about the middle of the bridge.
Mr. Parrish was hurrying to the Gibson Hospital here, where his son, Joseph Wayne Parrish, had been brought earlier in the evening and was to undergo an emergency appendicitis operation at 9 o'clock. The operation went ahead as planned without the boy knowing of his father's death.
Dr. R. B. Mabrey, coroner of Knox County, pronounced Mr. Parrish dead at the scene of the accident. He did not order an inquest.
Mr. Parrish's body was brought to the Hudson Funeral Home here from where it was taken at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon to the residence in Baring. Funeral services were at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Greensburg Christian Church by the Rev. Archie Cooper of Kirksville. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Parrish is survived by his wife; nine children Howard Dale Parrish of Memphis, Joseph Wayne Parrish of Baring, Marv Alice, Mrs. Glenn Funk of Hurdland, Pvt. Donald Ray Parrish, who is stationed at Ft. Louis, Wash., and five daughters at home, Shirley Ann, Barbara Louise, Dorothy Jean and Carolyn Mae and Marilyn Fay, twins at home; right brothers and sisters, Homer Parrish of La Plata, Elmer Parrish of Denver, Colo., Austin Parrish of Knox City, John Parrish of near Novelty, Elsie, Mrs. Bruce Clary of Edina, Fay, Mrs. Ira Davis of La Belle, Bessie, Mrs. Jake Jackson of Derby, Colo., and Ethel, Mrs. William Peters of Hannibal, and eight grandchildren.
Joseph Clark Parrish was a son of David Eli and Mary Augusta Zunker Parrish and was born near Novelty Aug. 4, 1908. He was married in June, 1926, to Ada Myrtle Kiesow and the nine children mentioned were born to them.
Mr. Parrish lived his entire life in the Knox County community and lived the last two years in Baring, where he was employed at the Corbin Service Station. Prior to that Mr. Parrish farmed.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri, 06 Jan 1955, Thu • Page 1, Column 1
Occupation: Filling Station Operator
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Clark Parrish Is Killed New Year's
Clark Parrish of Baring, 46 years old, was killed at 8:45 o'clock the evening of New Year's Day, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1955, when his car, a 1950 Chevrolet, ran off the fill of Highway 15 south of the Fabius bridge a half mile north of Edina and was demolished.
The State Highway Patrol said Mr. Parrish's car, which he was driving to Edina from Baring, sideswiped on the bridge a Plymouth being driven north by Mrs. John McManus of Baring. Mrs. McManus was not hurt and her car was only slightly damaged.
The Parrish automobile traveled many feet before leaving the highway fill on the east, or left side, hugged the fill a considerable distance, leaving only the right tire marks in snow, then hurtled into the air a distance of about fifteen yards, apparently landing on its top.
The next mark was about fifteen yards farther south and beyond a fence, which the car took out, and was on the south slope of a small draw. The slope of the draw apparently glanced the car back westward and upward, for the car next struck a Missouri Power * Light Company pole about eight feet up, breaking off the pole, which was run through the car body. The entire distance from the south abutment of the bridge to where the car struck the pole and stopped was 400 feet. It is believed it had sideswiped the McManus car about the middle of the bridge.
Mr. Parrish was hurrying to the Gibson Hospital here, where his son, Joseph Wayne Parrish, had been brought earlier in the evening and was to undergo an emergency appendicitis operation at 9 o'clock. The operation went ahead as planned without the boy knowing of his father's death.
Dr. R. B. Mabrey, coroner of Knox County, pronounced Mr. Parrish dead at the scene of the accident. He did not order an inquest.
Mr. Parrish's body was brought to the Hudson Funeral Home here from where it was taken at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon to the residence in Baring. Funeral services were at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Greensburg Christian Church by the Rev. Archie Cooper of Kirksville. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Parrish is survived by his wife; nine children Howard Dale Parrish of Memphis, Joseph Wayne Parrish of Baring, Marv Alice, Mrs. Glenn Funk of Hurdland, Pvt. Donald Ray Parrish, who is stationed at Ft. Louis, Wash., and five daughters at home, Shirley Ann, Barbara Louise, Dorothy Jean and Carolyn Mae and Marilyn Fay, twins at home; right brothers and sisters, Homer Parrish of La Plata, Elmer Parrish of Denver, Colo., Austin Parrish of Knox City, John Parrish of near Novelty, Elsie, Mrs. Bruce Clary of Edina, Fay, Mrs. Ira Davis of La Belle, Bessie, Mrs. Jake Jackson of Derby, Colo., and Ethel, Mrs. William Peters of Hannibal, and eight grandchildren.
Joseph Clark Parrish was a son of David Eli and Mary Augusta Zunker Parrish and was born near Novelty Aug. 4, 1908. He was married in June, 1926, to Ada Myrtle Kiesow and the nine children mentioned were born to them.
Mr. Parrish lived his entire life in the Knox County community and lived the last two years in Baring, where he was employed at the Corbin Service Station. Prior to that Mr. Parrish farmed.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri, 06 Jan 1955, Thu • Page 1, Column 1
MO d/c 1564
Clark Parrish Is Killed New Year's
Clark Parrish of Baring, 46 years old, was killed at 8:45 o'clock the evening of New Year's Day, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1955, when his car, a 1950 Chevrolet, ran off the fill of Highway 15 south of the Fabius bridge a half mile north of Edina and was demolished.
The State Highway Patrol said Mr. Parrish's car, which he was driving to Edina from Baring, sideswiped on the bridge a Plymouth being driven north by Mrs. John McManus of Baring. Mrs. McManus was not hurt and her car was only slightly damaged.
The Parrish automobile traveled many feet before leaving the highway fill on the east, or left side, hugged the fill a considerable distance, leaving only the right tire marks in snow, then hurtled into the air a distance of about fifteen yards, apparently landing on its top.
The next mark was about fifteen yards farther south and beyond a fence, which the car took out, and was on the south slope of a small draw. The slope of the draw apparently glanced the car back westward and upward, for the car next struck a Missouri Power * Light Company pole about eight feet up, breaking off the pole, which was run through the car body. The entire distance from the south abutment of the bridge to where the car struck the pole and stopped was 400 feet. It is believed it had sideswiped the McManus car about the middle of the bridge.
Mr. Parrish was hurrying to the Gibson Hospital here, where his son, Joseph Wayne Parrish, had been brought earlier in the evening and was to undergo an emergency appendicitis operation at 9 o'clock. The operation went ahead as planned without the boy knowing of his father's death.
Dr. R. B. Mabrey, coroner of Knox County, pronounced Mr. Parrish dead at the scene of the accident. He did not order an inquest.
Mr. Parrish's body was brought to the Hudson Funeral Home here from where it was taken at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon to the residence in Baring. Funeral services were at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Greensburg Christian Church by the Rev. Archie Cooper of Kirksville. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Mr. Parrish is survived by his wife; nine children Howard Dale Parrish of Memphis, Joseph Wayne Parrish of Baring, Marv Alice, Mrs. Glenn Funk of Hurdland, Pvt. Donald Ray Parrish, who is stationed at Ft. Louis, Wash., and five daughters at home, Shirley Ann, Barbara Louise, Dorothy Jean and Carolyn Mae and Marilyn Fay, twins at home; right brothers and sisters, Homer Parrish of La Plata, Elmer Parrish of Denver, Colo., Austin Parrish of Knox City, John Parrish of near Novelty, Elsie, Mrs. Bruce Clary of Edina, Fay, Mrs. Ira Davis of La Belle, Bessie, Mrs. Jake Jackson of Derby, Colo., and Ethel, Mrs. William Peters of Hannibal, and eight grandchildren.
Joseph Clark Parrish was a son of David Eli and Mary Augusta Zunker Parrish and was born near Novelty Aug. 4, 1908. He was married in June, 1926, to Ada Myrtle Kiesow and the nine children mentioned were born to them.
Mr. Parrish lived his entire life in the Knox County community and lived the last two years in Baring, where he was employed at the Corbin Service Station. Prior to that Mr. Parrish farmed.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri, 06 Jan 1955, Thu • Page 1, Column 1
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