Another year has passed...and yet it seems like only yesterday.
It was soooo easy being married to you. You always made me feel loved,  needed and protected. 
Five years since you passed. 
You were a wonderful man of faith..48 1/2 years we were married, and yet those years quickly flew bye.
I miss you dearly. I feel your presence..and that is most comforting.
God knew exactly what I needed in my life when he blessed me by marrying you. God is too good to do wrong and too wise to make a mistake. Incredible at details. Wait for me baby... I love you!

When I lived in Winter Park I would go to Mr. Parrish Texaco station to fill up my car with gas, he was so polite and friendly.  Then I met Ann at the Christian Women's Club, and came to their house for bible studies and felt so much Love from Dick and Ann. 
I always felt Loved and welcome at their home.  It was such a privilege to know a Man of God that showed it in his words and actions.
I pray the peace of the Lord and the Lord wrap his around all or the Parrish's family and relatives.
God Blessings and Love!
Rosa Maria Greenway


Although I only met this lovely man once  he had such a warm heart and nothing was to much trouble, we had the pleasure of staying with him  and his lovely wife Ann for two weeks in  2016  and it felt like home from home , the warmth from staying there will remain with me forever, Dick and I became  tasty cakes and ice cream buddies he will be solely missed. Love you Dick.  Ivy xxx

I pray for comfort for Ann especially as I have known her through Christian Women's Clubs where she spoke often.  We had many great times together and I am sorry I never got to meet Dick.  Know he must have been a very special person
though.  I pray that you, Ann, will be able to continue living in the new home you have moved to awhile back, will receive God's comfort and healing, and will continue to be a blessing to so many people, as you have in the past.  Please do
keep in touch with me and know that I care about your great loss.
Bonnilee Ashley

Condolences to all of Dick's family, and many friends.  I appreciated the honest way that Dick ran his Texaco station at Fairbanks Ave and US 17-92.   When I moved here in March, 1988, my employer, WESH-TV, had an account at the gas 
 station to fuel our vehicles there.  I began buying fuel for my vehicles there also, and enjoyed the good relationship I had with Dick and his employees for years, until the business closed.
   And I appreciated talking to Dick and Ann when worshiping at Ascension Lutheran Church in Casselberry. 

We share your sorrow, and pray for your family.
Tom Hirsch

I sent a long memory but I do not see how to send it.  Jacob Harry Pickle III and Carole Pickle.  It may have gone into the bit bucket.  Carole and Harry send our best to the Parrish family.

The man with the beautiful swing and a great friend.   I am a better person for just having him as a friend and golfing partner.  

Sincere condolences to Anne and her family Dick was a great person who will be missed by many our thoughts and prayers are with the family.  
 
Charles and Peggy Hershey

Dear Pop,

    I miss you.  You were the longest truest love of my life.  I am now trying to adapt to a world that has stopped revolving, or has it just stopped revolving around me?  I'm trying to understand why I am so different from you, the most influential person in my life.  Is it because I do not share your blood?  I am loud, and brassy, and wild, and funny, and fierce (where did I become infused with this warrior blood?!)  Maybe these are, in fact, traits that spring from a foundation of solid, consistent, unconditional love that created this free spirit in me.  I asked those closest to you which words they would use to describe you.  They used words like loving, kind, honest, generous, loyal, respectful, considerate, caring, dependable, honorable, protective.  And then I realized, these are words used to describe God's love!  You raised a family that both shared and did not share your blood, but there was no distinction to you.  Like God's love, it existed for everyone who wished to receive it.  Some of that love was unclaimed and rejected...it must have been the breaking of your pure heart!  But for the five of us who loved you most, who lay you to rest today, you were our knight in shining armor who saved us...the sun that rose to shine on us.  You stepped up to fill the void of those who hurt and abandoned us.  You healed our broken hearts and made us your family.  You adopted us and made us inheritors of your blessings (Genesis 48).  And your love reached far beyond us.  Your love rippled through an entire community, and they loved you back!  Your "family" is an inclusive one, from all walks of life...a vast family of varied races, creeds, and religions.  In that way, I am like you.  I too am assembling a diverse family, unconnected by blood, as God intended us to have.  Let that then be your legacy Pop, for myself and all who knew you...love.

Your Adoring Daughter,

Liz    

Dick and Ann are two of my favorite people. What a special family and an honor to know them both, I am a better person from having known Dick.  Best to Ann and family. 

Dick is survived by his beloved wife, Ann; his children:  Keith Parrish, Deborah “Debbie” Cisna, Frank “Thumper” Eicherly IV and Elizabeth “Liz” Pounders and her husband Lee; his sister Nellie Shoff, his 3 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.

OBITUARY

Richard "Dick" Vernon Parrish

November 21, 1927 – April 22, 2018

Baldwin Fairchild Funeral Home

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