Parks/Rodormer Family

Parks/Rodormer Family

My Parks family settled in the area around Fairview, Fulton Co., Illinois in 1849..Elijah Parks and wife Sarah Conover Parks moved to the area with their son David and wife Sarah Johnson Parks..
Next generation was James Johnson Parks who married another Sarah..this was Sarah Cammann.
Their son was my grandfather, Carl Raymond Parks who married Estella Rodormer daughter of Robert and Annie Robbins Rodormer.
My father was the second to last boy born to this union, Walter Junius Parks, Dec. 14, 1906, Fairview, Illinois.
I am Roxanne Parks Garrett, only child of Walter and Dorothy Vanlandingham Parks, born in 1946 in Canton, Fulton Co., Illinois.

Great Grandfather

James Johnson Parks

Great Grandmother

Sarah Cammann Parks, wife of James Parks

Great Grandmother

Sarah Cammann Parks, Fairview, Illinois, abt. 1880

Grandfather Parks

Carl Raymond Parks, abt. 1900

Parks Family Home

Fairview, Illinois, abt. 1920

Walter Junius Parks (my father)

Fairview, Illinois, 1907, age 6 mo.

Children of Carl and Estelle Parks

Walter, Celestine Jeanette, James Johnson, Emerson

Parks Family Home

Fairview, Illinois, abt. 1920

Sons of Carl and Estelle Parks

Russell, Jim, Walter, Emerson and Ralph

Walter J. Parks, Graduation picture (group), Class of 1924, Fairview High School, Fairview, Illinois

Dad

Walter Parks, abt. 15yrs, 1920, Fairview, Illinois

Grandma and Aunt Jean

Celestine Jeanette Parks Winship with her Mother, Estelle Rodormer Parks

Dad at Boot Camp Graduation

Walter Parks, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, 1942

Emerson and Carmen Parks, Anniversary pic..

Dad and Grandpa Parks

Walter Parks and father, Carl Raymond Parks, home on leave, 1942, Canton, Illinois

My parents

Dorothy Vanlandingham Parks, and Walter J. Parks, May 1942, Ft. Smith, Arkansas
Just Married!

Uncle Sam and daughter

Russell "Sam" Parks with daughter Sandra, 1943

The Parks Brothers

My grandfather, Carl Raymond and brothers about 1920, Fairview, Illinois, sons of James Johnson and Sarah Parks

Dad and Me

Walter holding Roxanne, 1948, Canton, Illinois

Walter, Roxanne and Grandma Parks

Canton, Illinois, 1948

Roxanne the Roadrunner

My nickname at 14 months because I ran faster than my parents!
San Luis Obispo, Calif., 1948

Roxanne Parks, 6 months

Walter, Dorothy & Roxanne Parks, 1948, Lompoc, Calif.

Visiting friends while Dad was still in Army..we also spent time in Las Vegas, NV while Dad was trying to fight TB he received in WWII..the only care then was the "desert cure"..my mother and I lived behind the Flamingo Hotel, which was at the end of the strip then and behind was all dirt roads..there was a military park set up there for wives who were waiting for ill husbands to get better, that was 1950..I saw Bugsy Siegel and other mob figures as they threw candy and pennies at us little children when we would run up to their big, black Cadillacs from the dirty park..bad time for my mother, but good time to be a kid..