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- Mabel Parks - May 8, 1928 - July 24, 1988. Daughter of Charles and Lizzie Cumbie Parks. Wife of James Hunt & Dames Frese & Richard Vernon Halsey Sr.
Newspaper Obituary - Monday, July 25, 1988 Watertown Daily Times - Watertown, New York - Mabel P. Halsey Former Waitress, Dies - Pulaski - Mabel P. Halsey, 60, RD 4, Town Line Road, died at 2:20 a.m. Sunday in Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital, Syracuse, following a lengthy illness. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Summerville Funeral Home, Sandy Creek, with Rev. Richard Pero, pastor of the Fernwood United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in South Richland Cemetery, Fernwood. Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Surviving are her husband, Richard V. Halsey Sr.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles (Dorcas) Summerville, Sandy Creek; two stepsons, Richard Halsey Jr., Brewerton, and Douglas Halsey, West Monroe; two stepdaughters, Mrs. John (Anne) Mundy, Pulaski, and Mrs. Byron (Margaret) Perry, Onondaga Hill; three grandchildren; a great-grandchild; 11 step-grandchildren; five great-step-grandchildren; two brothers, Thomas J. Parks, Jacksonville, Florida, and Marvin E. Parks, Havannah, Florida; and several nieces and nephews. Born in Donaldsonville, Georgia., May 8, 1928, a daughter of Charles and Lizzie Cumbie Parks, she moved to the Pulaski area from Georgia in 1952. Her marriages to James Hunt and Dames Frese ended in divorce. On April 1, 1973, she married Richard V. Halsey in Pulaski. Mrs. Halsey was employed as a waitress and cook in area restaurants until retiring from the Tinker Tavern Diner due to ill health. She was a member of the Fernwood United Methodist Church and the Sunday Night Couples Bowling League.
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