CAIRO, Ill. -- Effie Mae Parker, 94, of Cairo died Saturday, April 25, 1998, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo.

She was born Feb. 10, 1904, in Mississippi County, Mo., daughter of William and Mary Ellen Dexter. She was married to Charles Edgar Stroud. He died in 1938. She also married Paul Parker. He died in 1984.

She was a homemaker and a member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Cairo.

Survivors include three sons, George A. Stroud of Paducah, Ky., Robert Stroud of Rock Falls and Dr. Wayne Stroud of Norfolk, Va.; three daughters, Viola Malone of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Martha Schmitt of Cairo and Freda S. Stanley of Paducah; and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. The Rev. Kelly Cox will officiate, with burial at Green Lawn Memorial Gardens in Villa Ridge.