Loretta Jean Parks

Loretta Jean Parks

1925 – 2024

Loretta Jean Parks passed away on June 28th, 2024. She was born on September 10, 1925, at Hydro, Oklahoma to Herbert W. and Gladys M. Niehues. She graduated from Hydro High School and attended Oklahoma A&M (now OSU). When she and her family moved to Edmond, she finished her Bachelor of Science at Central State College and her Master of Education at Central State University (now UCO). She retired from Macklanburg-Duncan Co. as an Employment Clerk. She was a member of First Christian Church in Edmond where she volunteered for many years and was also long-time volunteer at OU Med Center in Edmond. She loved reading, traveling, gardening, her computer and being with her family.

She was preceded in death by her first husband Robert V. Hansen, her second husband Louis S. Parks, her parents Herbert and Gladys, her brother Eldon and sister-in-law Gerry Niehues, her sister Eileen and brother-in-law Vic Giles, and her son William K. Parks. She is survived by her daughter Sheri Parks, her daughter Meri Parks and son-in-law Dwight Stacy, her daughter Lori and son-in-law Jimmy Snyder, her grandchildren Karrie Swett Gates, Rachel Parks Winters and Lyndsay Parks, and her great grandsons Reece Gates and Samuel Winters.

Her funeral service will be held at First Christian Church in Edmond, OK on Monday, July 8th at 11:00am.

4 thoughts on “Loretta Jean Parks”

  1. Lois Hornbrook

    My sympathies to Loretta’s family. I enjoyed my time working with her at M-D. Peace, Lois Hornbrook

  2. Glenn Giles

    So sorry to hear. I am her nephew Glenn Giles. We got to visit her a year and a half ago. She was so sweet. She looks so much like her sister, my mom, Eileen Giles. May she rest in peace.

  3. Betty Grimsley - McKay

    I worked with Loretta at M-D . She was one of the best H.R employee we ever had. Very kind and understanding person.
    My condolences to all of her family. May she rest in peace.

  4. I’ve loved Loretta all of the time I knew her which was most of my life. She was my mother’s best friend. My mother and dad played bridge on Saturday nights with Loretta and Louie and when available the neighbors, Katie and Johnny Sotille, and Joy and Steve joined them to-play Tripoli. After my dad died and my mother lived in a care facility in Phoenix,AZ, the two of them would talk on the telephone for at least an hour about gardening and new recipes. Thank you Loretta, for being so good to me. You were a blessing in my life and in my mothers. With love Nita Marzorati.

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