James Thomas Parkinson III

| Send Sympathy Card PARKINSON, James Thomas III, died Saturday, October 22, 2016, after a valiant struggle with pancreatic cancer. Son of James T. Parkinson Jr. and Elizabeth Hopkins Parkinson, Jim was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from St. Christopher's School and the University of Virginia; received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania; and served in the Finance Corps of the U.S. Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Elizabeth Parkinson Brinkley. Jim is survived by his wife, The Rev. Caroline Smith Parkinson of Richmond, Va.; his children, James T. Parkinson IV of London, England and Washington, D.C. and Glenn Walser Parkinson of Washington, D.C. from his first marriage to Molly Owens Parkinson; his grandchildren, Catherine Reedy Parkinson and Elizabeth Louise Parkinson of London, England, Anna Owens Maher and Liam James Parkinson of Washington, D.C.; his stepchildren, Elizabeth Roller Pyle Ross of New Hill, N.C. and Howard Pyle IV of Brooklyn, N.Y.; his stepgrandchildren, Natalie Alexandra Ross, Elizabeth Kenyon Ross, Lucy Cabell Ross and Alana Caroline Ross of New Hill, N.C. and Ellis Marshall Pyle of Brooklyn, N.Y.; his nieces and nephews, Elizabeth Brinkley Munz of San Francisco, Calif., Arthur Sumner Brinkley III and Susan Brinkley Welk, both of Richmond, Va., Whitfield R. Brinkley of Barboursville, Va., and Carol Brinkley Morgan of Long Beach, La.; and numerous great-nieces and nephews. His generous spirit, wisdom, and sense of family will be deeply missed by his children, stepchildren, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, their spouses and children for whom he was a friend, advisor and role model. Jim had a long and distinguished career in investment management. For over 30 years, he lived and worked in Manhattan, where he started his career at the Chemical Bank. Jim subsequently worked for investment banking houses Blyth & Company and Clark, Dodge & Company, and then worked as an investment manager in New York, Middleburg, Va., and Richmond. He served on the Board of Directors for many corporations. As a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church, Jim was an active and faithful participant at churches in New York and Virginia, serving on vestries as Senior Warden and Treasurer, on search committees, and on key diocesan boards in both New York and Virginia. A resolution passed at its annual Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia in January 2016, commended Jim for having contributed tremendously to the life of the church and through "his loyal service and continued dedication to the Diocesan Missionary Society, the Trustees of the Funds and the Diocese of Virginia as a whole, and The Annual Council does hereby recognize and express sincere gratitude to him for his leadership and gifts freely offered to enrich the quality of our...

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