Betty Louise Parker

Betty Louise Parker, 89, of Lake City, passed away on Monday evening, April 8, 2024, at the Haven Hospice – Suwannee Valley Care Center in Lake City, after an extended illness. She was born in Tiger, Georgia on March 22, 1935 to the late Bartow Holbrook and Bessie Manley Holbrook. She has made Lake City her home since the mid-1980s, moving here from MacClenny. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Full Gospel Church and Abundant Life Church in Lake City. In her spare time, she loved keeping a clean house, working in her yard and tending to her garden, working with ceramics and making dolls. The one thing that brought her joy, was keeping and spending time with her grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her loving husband of 56 years, Michael Ray Parker; brothers, Jimmy & Bobby Holbrook; and sisters, Tecola Holbrook and Bonnie Sue Holbrook Brock.

She is survived by her sons, Steve Parker (Deborah) of Orange Park, Rick Parker (Cheryl) of Orange Park and David Parker of Lake City; daughters, Linda Parker of Lake City, Hope Tompkins (Matthew) of Branford and Nicole Parker Kohn (Kurtis) of Columbia City; brother, Billy Holbrook of Atlanta; and her sisters, Othelia Smith of Jacksonville, Carol Williams of Jacksonville and Joan Dunham (AL) of MacClenny. Nineteen grandchildren, twenty-nine great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren also survive.

A Celebration of Life service for Mrs. Parker will be conducted on Friday, April 12, 2024 at 3:00 P.M., in the Gateway-Forest Lawn Memorial Chapel with Pastor Cagney Tanner officiating. Interment will follow in the Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery. 

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