Mrs. Maggie Ruth Parker

November 16, 2017

Mrs. Maggie Ruth Parker of Maumee, Ohio departed this life peacefully on November 16, 2017 at home surrounded by family. Maggie was born to B.J. and Jennie Mae Foster on August 26, 1938 in Fosters, Alabama. She was the second of three children born to that union. The family moved to Ohio during the Great Migration, late in 1946. She began her formal education in Toledo, Ohio, graduating from Harriet Whitney High School as a master seamstress. She continued her education at The University of Toledo. Maggie’s career highlights included her position as Director of Head Start Transportation under the Toledo Public Schools and then Economic Opportunity Planning Association of Greater Toledo, from which she retired in the early 1980s. She served as a member of the Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority Community Board of Directors, which allowed her to assist first-time home-owning families. Baptized as a Jehovah’s Witnesses more than 45 years ago, she had a strong love for Jehovah God and served him well. Maggie had an amazingly special way of bonding with family and friends especially over her home cooked meals. Maggie was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Sylvia Ann Foster; brother, John B.J. Foster; husband, William Parker; sons, Daryl Foster and Kent Foster; one granddaughter; and two great- granddaughters. Surviving are her children: sons, Steven (Rosemary) Moore, Christopher Foster, J. Tony (Theresa) Foster, James Foster, *Christopher Sanders, and nephew-son Todd Foster; daughter, Jennifer Bembry, niece-daughter, Sherelle Foster; step father Robert (Elmiria) Martin; sister-in- laws, Ella Lee (Bennie Earl) Smith and Willie Foster; many loving grand-children, great- grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, cousins, nieces, nephews, and loving and loyal sons and daughters in Jehovahs organization. Visitation will be Friday 5-7:00 p.m. Dale-Riggs Funeral Home Chapel, wake services Saturday 12:00 p.m. followed by funeral service 12:30 at Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall, 139 Richards Road, interment Ottawa Hills Memorial Park.