Mrs. Carleen Baggett Parker, age 84 died at the Roanoke Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie on Saturday, January 15, 2011. Mrs. Parker was currently a resident at the Rich Square Health Care Center. She was a native of Hertford County and was married to Thurman W. ‘Buck’ Parker on March 4, 1944. She worked as at Mylcraft for some thirty-two years retiring as a supervisor. Mrs. Parker was a member of the Sandy Run Baptist Church in Roxobel. She had a great love of children and gardening.

Preceding her in death are her mother and father, Callie Vick Baggett and Walter Baggett, two infant sisters and three brothers; Roy, Robert and Raymond Baggett.

Survivors include her husband Thurman W. “Buck” Parker of Roxobel, North Carolina, currently residing at the Rich Square Health Care Center, two sons; Raymond Parker and his wife Mary Agnes of Rocky Mount, North Carolina and Thomas Parker and his wife Theresa of Roxobel, North Carolina, five grandchildren; Chris Odom, Kimberly Sloop, Ray Parker, Lisa Evans and Renee’ Baker and eight great grandchildren; Quinton Odom, Derek and Nikki Sloop, Wayne Ray Parker, II, Amelia Lee and Leah Nichole Evans, Luke and Gracie Baker.