{"id":4447,"date":"2020-09-01T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2020-09-01T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:58:20","slug":"parsley-imogene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/parsley-imogene\/","title":{"rendered":"Parsley, Imogene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Imogene Rasbury Parsley<\/strong><\/em>, age 92, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee passed away November 23, 2018.\u00a0 Jean, as she was known to all, was born in Kutch Hollow, Wayne County, Tennessee to Clyde and Marie Graves Rasbury. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">After growing up and attending school in Wayne County, Jean graduated from Martin Methodist Junior College and from Tennessee Tech with a BS in mathematics. Jean worked as a saleslady in O\u2019Neill\u2019s Department store, in the Goodrich Rubber Factory in Akron, Ohio, for Genesco Shoe Factory in Hohenwald, TN,\u00a0 as a file clerk for the FBI in Washington, DC, and as a school teacher for the Dekalb and Wayne County Schools Systems.\u00a0 She met her husband, Warren Parsley, while at Tennessee Tech.\u00a0 They were married in 1953 in the Hohenwald Methodist Church. They settled in Oak Ridge, Tennessee where Jean worked as a computer programmer for Union Carbide for 30 years.\u00a0 She and Warren only had 43 years together but they were great years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She was a member of Kerns United Methodist Church.\u00a0 In her retirement, Jean kept busy with her genealogy, traveling and enjoying the good life as she put it. The good life for Jean included lots of time with her two sisters. They took many trips together across the US and to Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren Burton Parsley, her brother, Clyde Edward Rasbury, her sister, Katherine Rasbury Fancher and brother-in-law, Alton Weldon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">She is survived by her sister, Willodean Rasbury Weldon, her brother, Thomas Rankin Rasbury and his wife Melba, brother-in-law, Harry Fancher, her nephews, Stephen, Michael and Donald Weldon, Gary Fancher, Eddie Rasbury and Dennis, Gary and Donald Wusher, nieces,\u00a0 Karen Rasbury Nicholson, Patricia Turnbow and Lynn Fancher Clemmons as well as\u00a0 many great nieces and nephews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Pallbearers were Stephen Weldon, Michael Weldon, Donald Weldon, Gary Fancher, Dennis Wusher and Eddie Rasbury.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imogene Rasbury Parsley, age 92, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee passed away November 23, 2018.\u00a0 Jean, as she was known to all, was born in Kutch Hollow, Wayne County, Tennessee to Clyde and Marie Graves Rasbury. After growing up and attending school in Wayne County, Jean graduated from Martin Methodist Junior College and from Tennessee Tech with a BS in mathematics&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/parsley-imogene\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,247,2111],"tags":[3051,528,1210,3050,230,326,1203,3052],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burial-records","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","category-obituaries","tag-fancher","tag-graves","tag-nicholson","tag-parsley","tag-rasbury","tag-turnbow","tag-weldon","tag-wusher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}