Emily Jean Parker Underwood

Service: Funeral, 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Visitation, the family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Friday, at Moore Funeral Home.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the American Heart Association.

She was born on June 27, 1939 in Union City, Tennessee to Napoleon and Martha Parker. Emily spent her first 13 years in Tennessee and then moved to Texas in 1952. She met a handsome military man on a blind dinner date in 1954 and they married in 1955. Together they had four children and lived a full life while together. She loved her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews dearly and they brought great joy to her life. She was a friend to many and had a heart as big as Texas. Emily enjoyed doing for all her family and friends and selflessly went to great lengths to do so. She was an excellent cook and always had something to eat for anyone that may have stopped by. The most popular request was her Granny rolls. Emily will be remembered for all the unique things she did to make you feel special and loved.

By chance Emily joined her mother in a painting class, and began a life-long passion she had and shared, first in Emily's Studio teaching painting in 1974. She had a true talent and gift. She spent the next six years at Newbern's Art Gallery and Frame It before opening her own frame shop and gallery in 1979, The Art Works. She furthered her expertise after this by providing art and design consulting with Studio One then Montgomery Ward. She finished her working years at Southwestern Bell.

Emily Jean was preceded in death by her father Napoleon Martin Parker and her mother Martha Louise Warix.

Survivors: include her children Lou Ann (George) Heath of Southlake, Texas, Andrew (Diana) Underwood of Georgetown, Texas, Angela (Efrain) Lopez of Georgetown, Texas, and Anthony Underwood of Plano, Texas, grandchildren, Zachary (Julia) Heath, Jonathan Heath, Alicia Underwood, Amy Underwood, Daniel Lopez, Nicole Lopez, and Crystal Lopez, sisters Joan (Jerry) Reeves, Nelson (Maurice) Moffitt, Barbara Pringle, and brothers Jack (Linda) Parker, and Lloyd (Amber) Parker, and numerous nieces and nephews.

She will be forever in our hearts and live on in our memories as a great lady, mother, grandmother, and aunt.