Mollie Parker Guy

Although growing up poor and hungry in a broken family, she was a very successful individual regularly helping and putting the needs of others ahead of her own. She was a member of Temple Oaks Baptist Church and a member of the Eastern Star.

Mollie was dedicated to God, her family, and any endeavor she chose, of which there were many. She enjoyed making and canning chow-chow and fig, pear, and lemon fig preserves. Mollie liked picking and shelling pecans, dewberries (you should have tasted her dewberry cobbler), and figs. She even continued picking figs after one of her closest friends shook her out of a fig tree. Gardening, quilting, sewing, crocheting, refinishing furniture, reupholstering furniture, and cooking were some of her many skills. Few know she also played piano. Mollie was well known for her made from scratch chicken and dumplings, hot rice, mustard greens, teacakes, and banana pudding. If you were really good, you might even get to partake in some of her homemade divinity. Her favorite cuisine was Mexican food.

Mollie was born in Rosepine, Louisiana, on a farm to the union of Percy Parker and Jewel Rosamond on March 26, 1932. She was especially proud of her mother who was the first female employee at Fort Polk, Louisiana. She remembered often having the Fort Polk soldiers coming to the farm to relax and have a change of scenery. Mollie was the youngest child and the only female born to this union. She and her two brothers were cared for by a dear friend, Jessie Lee, who Mollie stated was only a child herself. This explains her stories about their antics including the one about the horse running freely through the house.

At twelve years of age, Mollie, her mother, and youngest brother moved to Houston where she attended junior high and earned her diploma at Jeff Davis High School. She held various jobs in her youth. As an adult, she worked in the transportation industry at William E. Lewis Incorporated, Republic Van Lines, Wald Mayflower, the Seven Santini Brothers eventually retiring from A-1 Freeman at the age of 72. Mollie never sat still and never used the word "bored". She participated fully in raising grandson Nathaniel along with his parents and in pestering her son in law George. She traveled frequently with her daughter Judith and went on many adventures.

Mollie was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Wallace and Warren Parker, husband Samuel Guy, son Gerald Lewis Sr. aka Gene, grandson Daniel Lewis, her bonus mom Margaret Parker and bonus dad John Rosamond.

She is survived by her two daughters, Judith Lewis Harris (Tom) and Barri Lewis Machac (George), daughter in law Nancy Lewis, grandchildren; Carrie Vargas (Oscar), Gerald Lewis Jr, AKA Bubba, John Benavides III (Lehla), Joell Benavides, Chris Lewis (Danielle), Lola Martin (Kyle), and Nathaniel Machac. Mollie was blessed with many great grandchildren.

Additionally, she is survived by half-sisters Linda, Sally, Carolyn, Mary, and cuddle buddy Cricket.

Mollie sadly, but peacefully, succumbed to the horrendous effects of dementia surrounded by her family at home on October 25, 2024, at the age of 92 and seven months.

Services will be held at American Heritage Funeral Home on November 6, 2024, with visitation being at 10:00 am and her service at 12:30 pm. She will be buried with her loving husband, Sam, at Houston National Cemetery at 2:00 pm.

Mollie was a positive example for all who knew her. She was genuinely cherished and will be deeply missed by family and friends alike.