Frances Alston Walker Parks

Mrs. Frances Alston Walker Parks was born on September 17, 1944 in Shreveport, Louisiana and passed away on Sunday, August 14, 2005 in Corpus Christi, Texas after a lengthy illness. It was a long goodbye. She was educated at Southfield School in Shreveport, Louisiana, St. Timothy's School in Stevenson, Maryland, and Bennett College in Millbrook, New York.She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry Clay Walker III (1944), Frances Grey Walker Jacobs (1999), and Walter Byron Jacobs, Jr. (1974). She is survived by her daughter, Catherine Fenci Oliver and her husband John and his children Jack and Bevin of Corpus Christi, Texas, and son, Walker Stirling Fenci and his wife Diane and their children Stirling and Slaton of Frisco, Texas; her siblings, Henry Clay Walker IV of Shreveport, Louisiana, Elizabeth Jacobs Frazier of New Orleans, Louisiana, Sarah Jacobs Walker of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Catherine Heriot Jacobs of Shreveport, Louisiana; and her former husbands, Piero Fenci of Nacogdoches, Texas and Michael Parks of Los Angeles, California.Funeral services for Frances Alston Walker Parks, who lived her last years in Corpus Christi, will be held on Friday, August 19, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 275 Southfield Road, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Officiating the ceremony will be Father Guido F. Verbeck III of St. Paul's. Burial will follow at the Mansfield Cemetery in Mansfield, Louisiana. The family will receive callers on Thursday evening, August 18, 2005 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the home of her brother, Henry Clay Walker IV, 441 Drexel Drive in Shreveport.Pallbearers will be brother Henry Walker, brothers-in-law George Frazier, Michael Walker, and John Wilson, son-in-law John Oliver, cousin Lewis Robinson, and dear friends Broocks Greer and Bryan Davis. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to: Christ Memorial Episcopal Church, 401 Washington Avenue, Mansfield, LA 71052 or Southfield School, 1100 Southfield Road, Shreveport, LA 71106 or Alzheimer's Association, 225 N. Michigan Avenue, Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601.Arrangements by:Forest Park Funeral Home and Cemeteries 318-221-7181