Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. until funeral time at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, Marc h 15, 2019 at Dularge Community Baptist Church located at 524 Andrew St. in Houma. Burial will follow in Dularge Baptist Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Hawkins Parker; sons, Gilbert Parker, Jr. (Angie), Brian Parker, Tommy Parker, William Parker (Phalander), Phillip and Ronald (Kim) Hawkins; daughters, Pauline Allen (JC), Ophelia Henderson, Barbara Williams (Sincheze), and Lorie Parker; thirty-four grandchildren; seventy-eight great grandchildren; brother, Thomas Parker (Ava); and a host of other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his former wife, Delores Coulon Parker; two grandchildren; parents, Sylvester, Sr. and Viola Newton Parker; brothers, Sylvester, Jr., Earl and Larry Parker; sisters, Julia, Theresa and Doris Parker, Alma Pittman, Leona Jones and Rosemary Thomas.
Arrangements entrusted to Jones Funeral Home of Houma.
