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Sidney Parham Obituary
He was born May 22, 1923 to the late Emma Parham and Frank Jones.
Mr. Parham was the former president and one of the founding members of the Ranger Hunt Club in Wakefield.
He leaves to cherish his memory his wife, Margaret Parham; two sons, Fred Parham (Helen) of Wakefield and Sidney M. Parham of Fayetteville, N.C.; a daughter, Carolyn Bailey (Curtis) of East Orange, N.J.; six grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at noon Friday, Oct. 17, 2008 at Mars Hill A. M. E. Zion Church, Wakefield with the Rev. Benjamin Pettway, pastor, officiating. The interment will be held in Booker T. Memorial Park, Wakefield. Family and friends are asked to assemble at the residence on Bryan Avenue in Wakefield the day of the service. Mr. Parham's remains rest at Peace-Bland Funeral Home, 237 Railroad Ave. Waverly. Viewing will be Wednesday 4-8PM, and Thursday 9 AM-7PM.
Services have been entrusted to the staff of William N. Bland and Son Funeral Home, (804) 732-7841, www.blandenterprisesinc.com
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Memories and Condolences
for Sidney Parham
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Elizabeth Caple
October 17, 2008
To the Parham/Bailey Family,
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born,and a time to die; ... a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace,and a time to refrain from embracing...a time to love and a time to hate(that which is evil). God has made every thing beautiful in His time, also He has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
May our Heavenly Father grant you
peace, joy & love.Take good care
of your mother.
With kind regards and love for you all! Dickie and Liz Caple
SHERIFF RAYMOND BELL
October 9, 2008
KEEP YOUR HANDS IN GODS HAND,
AND HE WILL MAKE A WAY FOR YOU
DURING YOUR TRYING TIMES MAY,
GOD BLESS YOU.
WILLIAM TAYLOR
October 9, 2008
Understand death has no use for time.
No time is any better, any worse.
Cancel twenty years or eighty-nine,
Love's a loss one cannot reimburse.
Each of us lives for an eternity,
Dying only after our forever.
Early or late, we vanish equally,
All unconscious of the ties we sever,
No longer either separate or together.
Where did you go, my lovely ones?
Where did you go, my babies?
Where did you come from, where did you go,
My gentlemen and ladies?
Where are you now, my lovely ones?
Where are you now, my babies?
I sing to you, but do you hear,
My gentlemen and ladies?
Where can I turn, my lovely ones?
Where can I turn, my babies?
I cannot live, I cannot die,
My gentlemen and ladies.
How might a spirit settle in the wind?
After death, how might a soul find peace?
Love lasts long after lips and laughter cease,
Leaving only memories behind.
Out of longings, one might linen spin,
Weaving well the welkin edged with fleece.
Each spirit must from wandering seek release,
Else ever through the weary midnights wend,
Not resting till love's angels dark descend.
MINNIE ABLE
October 9, 2008
To say goodbye's impossible forever,
And yet we must too soon exchange goodbyes.
No magnitude of love when someone dies
Can manage the immensity of never.
Yet even death cannot our friendship sever
Though you may rest somewhere beyond our sighs
And all the talk of afterlife be lies.
Eternity is our brief glimpse of ever.
Even as each breeze must alter time
And each unruly rock reshape the sea,
So love lasts beyond our consciousness.
Each pulse of life's a piece of the sublime,
A breath so full of grace it cannot be,
A wave that ripples endlessly through darkness.
PARHAM FAMILY
October 9, 2008
To lose someone who's loved you all your life,
Having held you long against the darkness,
And felt the press of friends upon your sadness,
Need cutting through your torment like a knife . . .
Kindness is a sign of inner plenty:
Yours does much to mitigate my pain.
Of grief comes neither clarity nor gain
Unless friends fill its passion with their beauty.
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