Gail C. Parnicky

Parnicky Gail C. Parnicky, 94, passed away Thursday, March 3, 2016. Nee Gail Frances Clapp, she was the daughter of the late Francis B. and Florence H. Clapp of Gardner, MA where she was born and raised. Mrs. Parnicky attended Boston University as a music major where she met the love of her life while standing in the wrong line at the registrar's office. She and Joseph J. Parnicky of Freehold, NJ, married on July 20, 1943. Their first residences were army bases across the country during the war, and later they resided in New York City, Levittown, NY, North Plainfield and Bordentown, NJ, before making Columbus, OH their home in 1969. Mrs. Parnicky was a wife and mother and, in her 40's, returned to college to earn a BA at Trenton State Teachers' College and a MA in Education from Antioch College. She enjoyed a successful career educating first- and third-graders in the public school systems of Bordentown, NJ, and of Columbus and Bexley OH. Dr. and Mrs. Parnicky shared a love of dancing, jazz, and travel. During their 69-year marriage they visited all the continents often under the aegis of People-to-People, and particularly enjoyed their time living in Dunedin, New Zealand. Since September of last year Mrs. Parnicky had resided at Sunrise Senior Living in Reston, VA. She is survived by a son, Kris Parnicky and his wife, Rosalie Denenfeld of Ann Arbor, MI; a daughter, Karen W. Parnicky and her husband, Stephen J. Weber of Reston, VA; three grandchildren, Elizabeth P. Weber, Jonathan P. Weber, and Kaela Jo Parnicky; a step-grandson, Tobin Bolz; and a great-granddaughter Layla W. Monosov. Please share a memory or express condolences at www.adamsgreen.com, or commemorate her life by giving to a charity of your choice.