Teresa Ann Boles

Granddaughter of Chief Quanah Parker
The Comanche Nation

(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 29, 2013)

Teresa Ann Parker Boles, 85, of Amarillo died Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in LaGrone-Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home Coulter Road Chapel, 8310 S. Coulter St. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by LaGrone-Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Coulter Road.

Teresa was born March 16, 1927, in Elgin, Okla., to Thomas Tit-ah Parker (son of Quanah Parker) and Helen Marie Fisher Parker. She graduated from Chilocco Indian School in Chilocco, Okla. Teresa had worked as a cook at Herring Hotel and Campbell's Pancake House and as a meat wrapper in the meat market of Furr's Supermarket. She was the granddaughter of Chief Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanche nation, and she was a member of the Inter-Tribal Organization in Amarillo.

Teresa was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Edward Parker of Apache, Okla., and William Parker of Hobart, Okla.; and two great-grandsons, Cole Kelley and Travis Boles.

Survivors include four daughters, Mary Ann Endres and husband John of Okmulgee, Okla., Ginger Stephens and husband Mike of Friona, Melanie Bowman of Midland and Nancy Boles of Amarillo; a son, Richard Boles and wife Cyndi of Amarillo; seven granddaughters and four grandsons, Lesley Pike, Justin Boles, Christy Boles and Holly Kelley, all of Amarillo, Bobby Ellis, Debrah McKay and Brenda Sloan, all of Okmulgee, Okla., John Stephens of Clovis, N.M., Amy and David Stephens of Friona and Katie Bowman of Midland; a stepgranddaughter, Sarah Lee of Amarillo; a stepgrandson, Jason Williams of Arizona; two brothers, Elmer Parker of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Charles Parker of Lubbock; and 30 great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Big Brothers Big Sisters, 2110 S. Western St., Amarillo, TX 79109; or Amarillo Humane Society, 3501 S. Osage St., Amarillo, TX 79118.

The family will receive guests from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

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