Virginia Parker

Virginia G. Parker, daughter of the late Loy Riley "Pat" Patterson and Talitha Ann Aslin Patterson, was born Jan. 18, 1922, in Dexter, Missouri, and departed this life Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau at the age of 93.

Parker was a member of the Lynwood Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau and also a member of the First Baptist Church in Dexter for many years.

She had worked as a bookkeeper and homemaker and was a former resident of Dexter.

On Dec. 25, 1942, she was united in marriage to Arthur Bryant "Archie" Parker in Dexter. He preceded her in death March 9, 2001. She later married Ale Clifford Cato, who also preceded her in death.

She is survived by two sons, Stephen Bryant Parker and his wife, Celeste, of Spearfish, South Dakota, and Michael Loy Parker and his wife, Dawn, of Sikeston, Missouri; four grandchildren, Andrea Parker, Gregory Parker, Geoffrey Parker and Jennifer McCoy; five great-grandchildren, Aden Parker, Elise Parker, Henley Parker, Elizabeth McCoy and William McCoy; and four stepdaughters, Pamela Horton, Sandra Cato, Janet Cornelius and Amy Reynolds.

In addition to her husbands and parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Jimmy Patterson and Loy Riley Patterson Jr., and six sisters, Patsy Ann Patterson, Pauline Hardy, Opal Campbell, Ruth Swindle, Loyce Reed and Barbara Mouser.

Funeral services were held Monday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter, Missouri, with the Rev. David Ross officiating. Interment followed in the Dexter Cemetery.