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Show George P. Parker Dies at Hospital In California George Proctor Parker, former American Fork citizen and prom-1 prom-1 inent attorney of Utah, died Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon in Long Beach, California, of a heart disease. He was born in American Fork, March 27, 1835, a son of Thomas B. and Elizabeth Proctor Parker, pioneers of northern Utah county. He married Nellie Oliver of Provo in 1907. The couple lived in Alberta, Canada, for two years before Mr. Parker entered the University of Michigan law school at Ann Arbor. He graduated from there in 1911 and returned to Provo to practice. For the next fourteen years Mr. Parker practiced law in Provo, was American Fork City attorney and Utah county attorney and for a time was law partner of J. Will Robinson. Rob-inson. He was also a member' of the Provo Fifth ward bishopric. In 1924 he was chosen judge of the Fourth District and four years later was elected state attornew general, which office he held for one- term under Governor George H. Dern. Two months ago in poor health, he left Utah for a California hospital. hospi-tal. Surviving are his widow, three sons and a daughter, Thomas Oliver and Edward W. Parker, and Mrs. Stephen L. Hansen of Salt Lake, and George A. Parker, law student at Washington, D. C, and a brother and three sisters, Mrs. Reed Gardner Gard-ner and James Parker of Salt Lake City, Mrs. J. C. Hansen of South Jordan, and Mrs. Rulon Nicholes of American Fork. The body will be brought to Salt Lake where funeral services will be conducted. Last evening the exact time for the services had not been set. " |
