PEARL IVY CRICK PARKER, retired homemaker and widow of John Henry Parker died after a brief illness Wednesday, July 11, 2012, at the age of 104. As a resident of Ave Maria Nursing Home, she lived there for 10 years. She was the beloved mother of four daughters, Maurice Parker, Thelma Parker Favazza, both deceased and two surving daughters, Joan Shrader Gaither and Jeanette Brunner Tipton, and a son-in-law, Ronald Tipton, all residents of Cordova, TN. A sibling of four sisters and one brother, she is survived by a sister, Vontese Wilderson of Pensacola, Florida. She has seven grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Family will receive friends on Friday, July 13 from 2:30 until services at 3 p.m. in the chapel of Ave Maria Nursing Home, 2805 Charles Bryan Rd., Bartlett, TN. Burial will follow in Memphis Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Online condolences and floral tributes may be made by visiting www.memphisfuneralhome.net. Memphis Funeral Home And Memorial Gardens 3700 N. Germantown Rd. 901-725-0100
