Charles A. Parker

Grandson of Chief Quanah Parker
The Comanche Nation The 3rd Infantry

After a short, but brave battle with cancer, Charles A Parker left this earth on Sunday, March 12, 2017, at his home in Lubbock, Texas, with his family by his side.

Graveside service with full military honors will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at Cache Creek KCA Cemetery with Jimmy Caddo CIVA Chaplain officiating under direction of Comanche Nation Funeral Home.

Memorial service will be planned in Lubbock, Texas, at a later date and time.

He was born at the Caddo Kiowa Comanche Indian hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma to Thomas "Tit -tah" Parker and Helen Marie Fisher Parker on April 18, 1936. He was the second to the last living grandson of Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanche Indians.

Specialist 4. After his Basic and Light Weapons Infantryman training he completed NCO School from August to September 1956 and was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry at Fort McNair, Va. The 3rd Infantry was also known as the "Old Guard" and "Escort to the President." His duties consisted memorial affairs missions including standard and full honor funerals in Arlington National Cemetery and dignified transfers at Dover Air Force Base. Other duties included ceremonial tasks of full honor arrivals for visiting dignitaries, wreath ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown, and honor reviews in support of senior army leaders and retiring soldiers. The "Old Guard" is the only unit in the U.S. Armed Forces authorized to march with fixed bayonets in all parades.

His grandfather was Quanah Parker the last Chief of the Comanches and his father, Thomas (Tit-tah) Parker served in the Army during World War I when he was yet a citizen of the United States. After serving in the United States Army, Mr. Parker retired as manager from Furr's General Warehouse. He loved and enjoyed his family, doted on his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He loved to laugh and have fun as well as being a hardworking, generous and caring man. He enjoyed his sports, fishing, hunting, working in his garden and raising animals.

He leaves behind two daughters: Diane (Arty) Reid, Jena Parker and a son, Steven "Tadpole" (Teresa Myers) Parker; his grandchildren: Amy (Louis) Brose, Jessica (Tyler Wilbanks), Stone Krista Baxter, Anthony (T.J.) Baxter, Amanda Myers, Bradley (Paula) Williams, Talon (Megan) Williams and Andrew Williams. He was known as Papa or Pops and loved by his 14 great-grandchildren: Devon, Trevor, Lorilei, Levi, Enrique (Peanut), Bransyn, April, Morgan, Keaton, Kehvia, Kimbreigh, Smash, Khane, and Kasci. Mr. Parker also leaves behind numerous nieces, nephews and friends young and old.

The family would like to express a heart-felt thank you to the wonder people at Hospice of Lubbock, especially our beloved hospice nurse, Glenda Mooney; Yolanda and Diana, and also "Big Chuck", who all cared for our dad/papa with love and respect.

He is the grandson of the last Chief of Comanche's Quanah Parker

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