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03 March 2021

David March © 2014

WARREN PARKER

Parents: George and Mary Parker.

Warren was born November 6, 1906, in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

From a Parker family newsletter, July 27, 1995.

Warren lived at the Parker home with his parents until he went in the service. Warren served as a cook in the Pacific during WWII. After the war, Warren went to work at Presto Cooker until it went under. He married Luella Anderson and happily raised her son Gene or better known as ’Butch’ in the Parker family. The family lived on Birch Street in Eau Claire, Luella’s birth home. After working at Presto, Warren went to work at G & R Teile and Ceramic as a terrazzo machinist. Warren also worked for L G Arnold Road Construction and was involved in the building of the long bridge road over Lake Wassota, in Chippewa County. Luella was a housekeeper and enjoyed playing cards. Once Butch was ten or eleven he preferred to stay home with his Grandma Anderson while Warren and Lue would do their ’roaming’ as Butch would put it. Warren would go to auction sales in a moment’s notice, always looking for a bargain and more stuff to tinker with. After Lue’s death in 1973, Warren lived in a small house on Bellview Avenue in Eau Claire. His house was across the street from his sister Annie Parker Krause and Annie’s sister Florence Krause Ginder. Living so close lead to Warren helping them out with whatever needed doing. Their ’gopher’ as Butch put it. Warren collected canes and was well known in the Parker family for crafting horse collar mirrors and milk can stools with a padded seat cover.

Contributed by Butch and Kathy Heller, Sharon Gilgan (Butch’s first wife), and Irene Tellstrom Clark

Warren was based in the Philippines during the war.

Informant: Jean Tiegen

Note: Warren Parker never lived in Canada. He was an American citizen, and the brother of Albert Parker, whose wife Lilian was a member of the Marchant Grove Ladies Aid.

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