Our dear mother, Molly Jean Parker, 70, with loved ones close in song and prayer, passed away from sorrow and on to the peace of loving memory on Oct. 19, 2022.
Molly was born in Sulphur, La., on Sept. 10, 1952, to Jasper and Effie Demeritt. She lived in Sulphur most of her life, spending her childhood days with her sisters, experiencing the joy of time outside, making mud pies, and playing games with neighborhood children.
Molly developed a love for cooking and sewing through the tender tutelage of her own mother, and she used those gifts in the care and upbringing of her own husband and children.
Molly and her husband, Roland “Randy/Bo” Parker Jr., spent much of their lives with their 3 children at their barn-style home on West Houston River Road outside the Sulphur city limits.
From the late 1980s into the 2000s, Molly and Randy owned and successfully operated Bo’s Videos in Sulphur, DeQuincy, and Westlake, La.
Like many, Molly’s life was filled with many treasured joys paired with struggles and hardships. In the last decade of her life, she lovingly cared for her husband through his failing health, widowed in September of 2015. In 2016 she faced the beginning of her own health decline. During these years, always quick to put her well-being aside, she continued to serve and care for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren selflessly.
Like a firm mother tree standing alone in a pasture, there seemed to be no end to the loving fruit she offered nor any limit to the shelter and shade she provided to those around her. At last, she was spent and could stand on her own no more.
Our momma Molly asked very little of those around her, often keeping her personal pains to herself. She enjoyed the simplest things in life and often found ways to turn her hobbies into gifts for others. She was a wonderful cook (her dishes will be missed), skilled at sewing (making many of her children’s outfits), arts and crafts, plants and gardening, and enjoying the company of her family (and birds) in the shade of her small front porch. She never wanted more than her fair share and commonly received less than that.
She is survived by her children, Oran Parker and wife Michelle, Bethany Parker, and Rebecca Parker; grandchildren, Lillian Parker, Jonah Parker, Eben Parker, Neil Bukaty, Victoria Deshotels and husband Gary, Jasper Coan, Ivy Stutzman, Emily Jones, Xander Jones, Oakley Jones; great-grandchild, Kahlil Parker; and sisters, Shirley Demeritt and Dena Granger and husband Pat.
Now, she has traveled to the other shore — forever fresh, happy, healthy, and free. We will miss our momma Molly Jean deeply. If we look deeply, we will find her living in the hearts and minds of each left here in love and grief.