Marie Parker Ethridge

After a fourteen-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease, Marie Parker Ethridge died at her home in New Bern, NC, on Thursday, September 27, 2012.

She was a native of Lucedale, Mississippi, and was the eldest of five daughters of R.O. and Minnie Parker. She was a member of Oriental First Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband of fifty-eight years, Rev. Murray Ethridge; two sons, Mark Ethridge and wife, Pat, of Virginia Beach, Va. and David Ethridge and wife, Jeanine, of New Bern; four grandchildren, Stephanie Ethridge and Michael Ethridge both of Virginia Beach, Va. and Hannah Ethridge and Rebekah Ethridge both of New Bern; and two sisters, Inez Beech of Lucedale, MS and Ann McGraw of Mobile, Ala.

She will be honored and remembered at a memorial service at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, September 30, at Oriental First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Harper officiating. Interment will follow immediately in Oriental Cemetery.

Memorial gifts are welcome to either the Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Eastern NC Chapter, 3737 Glenwood Ave-Suite 100, Raleigh, NC 27612 or Oriental First Baptist Church, PO Box 313, Oriental, NC 28571.