Funeral services for Mrs. Zaidee K. Parker, who observed her 100th birthday anniversity Oct. 26, were conducted at 2 p.m. last Friday. Burial was at the Pleasant Hill cemetery.

While Mrs. Parker had lived a century, her death was a shock to the community which had so recently read of her happiness in receiving so many cards and flowers from all over the United States. Only last Thursday the Times which goes to press on Wednesday, carried another story about her receiving congratulations from President John F. Kennedy. She died quietly Wednesday night, Nov. 15, after suffering a second stroke.

Mrs. Parker had confided to friends and relatives that the one goal she had was to live to 100, Mrs. Gertrude Wallace, with whom she lived in her own apartment, said. "She just seemed to grow weak soon after her birthday celebration", said her son, Glenn Parker. "It wasn't too much excitement over her birthday. She just seemed to be completely satisifed that she had become 100."

Mrs. Parker suffered a light stroke on Nov. 12, but even after that was up and around and sitting in her favorite chair. She ate her usual dinner at 5:30 p.m. last Wednesday and had her cup of tea, then she wanted to go to bed. The end came soon after.

The funeral service was held at the Wallace Funeral Home. The Rev. Dan Peterson was in charge. Organ selections were played during the service. Pallbearers were members of the family.

Mrs. Parker was buried next to her husband, Millard F. Parker, who died in 1922, in a plot purchased many years ago by her father, George Kellogg. She and Mr. Parker were married in Pleasant Hill, Oct. 25, 1883. They moved to Warrensburg, in 1889 where they bought a farm and raised and sold vegetables. They returned in 1904 and Mr. Parker became superintendent of a greenhouse established by her father. Mr. Parker later became president of the company on the death of Mr. Kellogg and remained so until the sale of the greenhouse which is now known as A.D. Mohr greenhouses.

Mrs. Parker came to Pleasant Hill with her parents in 1866 when she was five years old from Hiawatha, Kansas. They traveled in a spring wagon with four other children and all their belongings, seeking a place to homestead.

Mr. Kellogg was a good gardener and began raising vegetables on a small plot of ground. Mrs. Kellogg also raised flowers and Mr. Kellogg took along some of the slips while selling vegetables. People wanted more of the flowers and Mr. Kellogg built a small greenhouse for her, thus beginning what became the largest greenhouse south of Chicago and west of the Mississippi river.

Mr. Kellogg bought a large home near the greenhouses off of Highway 7. He added to it. The home is still standing, having been sold to Mr. and Mrs. William Gustin two years ago.

Mrs. Parker had a large garden each year at the old home place where she lived in the summer and spent the winters with a daughter, the late Mrs. A.E. Shirling in Kansas City. When she was 94 years old she tended a big garden and canned the vegetables herself, even mowing the yard at that age.

"Mother couldn't stand to see anything go to waste," her son said, "and she always had to have meals right on the dot."

Mrs. Parker was a very religious woman. Her father read a chapter from the Bible every morning and had the family sing a hymn, the son said she recalled. All the pages of the New Testament in her Bible are badly worn from use, he said. She was a member of the Swope Park Christian church in Kansas City.

Another daughter, Mrs. W.F. (Bessie) Hoffhaus, died a number of years ago. Besides the son, surviving are nine grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.