AMANDA MARTHA PARKES PALMER GALES, 74, Chula Vista,
CA, a suburb of San Diego, CA, formerly of Memphis, TN, died Sunday, May
25, 2008. Born August 20, 1933, she was the youngest daughter of Henry
L. Parkes, Sr. and Cora Leonia Scott Parkes and the former wife of
Richard Palmer, Sr. The 1951 graduates of Booker T. Washington High
School were the parents of four children, Richard, Jr. (Lisa), Robin
(deceased), Russell and Rhonda L. Palmer. Amanda was the sister of Cora
L. Gleese (Rev. James L.-deceased), Mary Emma Parkes Jones (Thomas E.
-both deceased), and Henry L. Parkes, Jr. (deceased), (Myrtle) and Lois
Jean Palmer Alexander (Johnny Ace-deceased). Amanda was the aunt of
Walter Samuel Leatherwood (deceased), Patricia Gleese Gates (Reginald),
Deborah Gleese Barnes (Calvin "Duke"), Judy Gleese Brown Jones (Gerald),
Thomas Earl Jones III, Constance Marie Jones, Benjamin Levi Jones, Joan
Parkes Brown (Sergesker-deceased), Henry Lemuel "Lem" Parkes III, Janet
Alexander McClora, Glenn Alexander (deceased), Reginald Carl Alexander,
Jerome Alexander (Vanessa) and Heather Durham. Amanda was the niece of
Emma Louise Scott and William Washburn (Pearl-deceased) and a host of
other relatives and friends. Amanda grew up in the Metropolitan Baptist
Church and LeMoyne Gardens neighborhood, where she attended most
activities at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, under the pastorate of
Rev. S. A. Owen and she like to talk of a group of her girlfriends
including Nellie Peeples Tate, Andrewnetta Hawkins Jones and Geraldine
(Jerry) Veasey Green, who called themselves "the Unholy Four". The
Memphis family hour will be today, Saturday, June 7 at 977 Lenow Park
Drive, #102 (College Park Subdivision) from 1-8 p.m. Final services are
to be held at the Community Mortuary, 855 Broadway in Chula Vista, CA on
June 7 at 4 p.m. Amanda's family sincerely thanks all persons who
extended all acts of condolences in any form. May God Bless you, is our
prayer. Local arrangements by N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home
901-948-7755
Published in The Commercial Appeal on 6/7/2008.
Published in The Commercial Appeal on 6/7/2008.
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