AUSTIN H. PARRET

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Austin H. Parret of Sikeston will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Carl Addison will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Parret, 84, died Wednesday, April 21, 1993, in the emergency room at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

He was born Sept. 14, 1908, in Blue Jacket, Okla., son of Chester Lee and Mamie Thornburgh Parret. He and Mary Williams Evans were married June 14, 1968, at Sikeston.

Parret was an appliance repairman many years, and member of Tanner Street Church of God. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; a stepson, Richard Evans of Sikeston; three brothers, Walter Parret of Nowata, Okla., Orval Parret of Willis, Texas, Claudie Parret of Nowata; two sisters, Alma Nitz of Nowata, Wilma Embree of Drumwright, Okla.; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother and three sisters.