Sunday Salute: Marie Parker never stopped teaching us along life's way
Marie Parker was a lifelong teacher.She came by it honestly enough.“She comes from tough stock,” the late Roy Parker Jr. wrote about his wife on March 1, 1980, when he was editor of The Fayetteville Times, this city’s morning newspaper. “Her father kept pigs at N.C. State College in order to become an ‘agriculture teacher’ in South Carolina schools. Her mother was a schoolmar’m in those same schools. One of our treasured heirlooms is a 1911 photograph of […]
