A veteran Gainesville insurance executive, Ed Parks, died Saturday at the age of 85. Parks died at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following several weeks of declining health.
Shortly after returning from the Korean War, he bought the Loudermilk Insurance Agency in Gainesville from his aunt. With the help of two partners, Earl Day and Perrin Reynolds, it became Day, Reynolds and Parks Insurance Agency.
According to his obituary, of all the non-profits he participated in, his favorite was probably the ballfield and dugouts that he and another group of First United Methodist Church friends help build for under privileged children in Sparta, Georgia. It was hard, hot work, the obituary reads, but he always held that mission trip particularly close to this heart.
A celebration of life will be at 2:00 Tuesday at the Chapel of Memorial Park North Riverside Chapel.
(A full obituary can be found on the AccessWDUN obituaries page.)
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