1924
2015
Dorothy Lucille Heard Parmer died peacefully with family 7/7/2015. She served her family as a self sacrificing, loving caretaker and homemaker. She served her community through her church teaching teens and adults with scholarship and wisdom for 40 years. She will be missed by her adoring husband of 65 years and three daughters Pat Williams, Linda Parmer, and Taylor Eileen Kaufman.
Services to be held at Rice Temple Baptist 6409 Greenbriar Houston, TX at 11 AM Thursday 7/9/2015.
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August 2, 2016
Vicki Watts
Larry and I are shocked to know that our dear friend and mentor passed over a year ago and we did not know. The grief that I feel today is deep. Dorothy was a handmaiden of the Lord, always loving others with humility and acceptance. She was an honest teacher to young women, dividing the truth as she knew it to all of us, and laughing frequently at the baffling and sometimes painful turns life gives us. Dorothy was my friend, is my friend. Her disarming wisdom burns in my mind often. She was solid but vulnerable. She could be trusted. I will look into my heart now and call her up at times when I need her to come and walk with me. I loved her so. Vicki Watts
July 24, 2015
Dorothy was a woman who loved taking care of her family. i knew and observed her mostly in her declining years, yet I observed her wry sense of humor. she seemed to see me as a "guru", a figurative title, i am told meant a lot to her. she wouldn't act on any medical decision without my input. She complimented me a lot and made me feel important. Sometimes, Taylor would insist on saying I treated her mother better than she did. my wife, Taylor Eileen (her family still calls her Eileen) said Dorothy adored me and looked up to me. Taylor seemed to enjoy her mother's admiration for me partly as i brought, what Taylor calls, the intellectual into Dorothy's life as Dorothy had always dreamed of having. She regretted not finishing her last semester of UT though she was an incessant reader and "seeker" of truth and wisdom. She apparently longed for intellectual dialogue, i suppose to be able to discuss what she had read; and though she didn't talk to me directly about her readings, Taylor's refrain was that Dorothy got great pleasure in my eggheadish delineation of knowledge. she also took great pleasure to the point of having a way of insisting that there be conversation around her whether to her (she was aphasic in the end) or not. She was at most peace when Taylor would expound on her day and the experiences she had had with people and her analyzations of people. She loved to listen to Taylor as she had throughout Taylor's life-that listening that Taylor attributes a lot to her skill as a therapist. I am thankful to have known this woman who influenced my wife in such beautiful ways. Dan Kaufman
July 14, 2015
Jenel Moline
Praying for you all! What an amazing legacy Dorothy has left through her family and friends!
Much Love to all
Jenel
July 14, 2015
Paula Hughes
Such a Stable and Godly Woman. She loved the Lord and every one knew it. The world will miss her.
July 13, 2015
Lenore Kann
Our deepest condolences at this trying time. Thinking of you and your family.
Lenore and Daniel Kann
July 8, 2015
Wonderful, godly person. We will never forget you.
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