James W Parks

     James W Parks was born on 2 July 1882 Colton, Whitman County, Washington. on the farm, southeast of town. He was the son of Caleb Andrew Parks and Mary Campbell. James and Olive Burdette Hasting were married 4 July 1903 Pullman, Whitman County, Washington.^1,2 James and Isabel Ford were married 26 March 1930 Latah, Idaho.³ James W Parks died 15 February 1939, in Colton, Whitman County, Washington at age 56 years, 7 months and 13 days, at homestead outside Colton.⁴

Colton News, pg 3

Word was received Wednesday, just before going to press, of the death that morning of James W. Parks at his farm home south of town. He suffered a heart attack last summer and had been in poor health ever since, suffering much pain, and the past few weeks gradually grew worse, until the Angel of Death brought relief from his pain. He was sitting at the table when death came.
Surviving him are his widow; three small sons; his mother, Mrs. Mary Parks of Clarkston, and a sister, Mrs. Rose Jones. To the bereaved family we join their many friends in extending sincere sympathy in their hour of sorrow.
Funeral services will be held at Clarkston but at this writing no definite time has been set.
Colton News-Letter February 23, 1939 pg 1
James W. Parks Laid to Rest
Colton Resident Buried at Clarkston Saturday Afternoon
Funeral services for James W. Parks, who died at his farm home south of Colton last Wednesday morning, were held at two o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Prayer Tabernacle at Lewiston with the Rev. Baker officiating. The church was filled with relatives and friends and a large number of local people were present to pay their last respects to a departed friend and neighbor. Burial was in Vineland Cemetery at Clarkston.
Mr. Parks was born on a farm near Colton July 2, 1882, and was 56 years, 7 months and 13 days of age. He attended the local grade and high school and completed his education at Washington State College at Pullman. He lived on his farm south of town for a number of years, later going to California, then returning to live at Clarkston, and three years ago the family moved to his mother's farm south of town.
He suffered a severe heart attack last May and was rushed to the Colfax hospital, where he remained several weeks for treatment, returning home some improved, but grew worse and was taken to a hospital at Lewiston for six weeks, then to the home of his mother in Clarkston for seven more weeks, before returning home, much improved, but the past month he gradually grew worse and passed away at about 8:15 last Wednesday morning.
Jim, as he was known t all his friends, was a loving husband and father, a good neighbor and leaves a host of farm friends to mourn his passing. We join in extending sympathy to the bereaved family.
Surviving him are his widow, Isabelle; three sons; his aged mother, Mrs. Mary Parks of Clarkston, a sister, Mrs. Rose M. Jones, Colton; a niece Mary Durham, Clarkston, and a nephew, Andres Jones, Colton.

     James and Isabel had three children, James, Don, and Carl. James died in 1981.. James and Olive had no children.