Edna Parker Passes Away at 115
Edna Parker Talks to Matty Walsh in recent meeting
Edna Parker Talks to Matty Walsh in recent meetingKingfishers biggest supporter / major sponsor has died at the age of 115.
Edna Parker from Indianna, USA, died of a heart attack in her nursing home on Wednesday. Mrs Parker was widowed when she was 48 and even outlived her two sons.
She was rumored to have all but passed on back in 2007 but when the Kingfishers assembled a squad for the first time in over a decade it gave her a reason to keep going. She took a turn for the worse in early November after XXX upset the Kingfishers early into the 08 /09 FIHL season and never got her step back again. She held on long enough to see her Kingfishers get their game back with 2 straight offensive slaughterings of their opponents, which put her at peace with the world once again prior to passing on.
Edna, has seen a lot over her years, such highlights as living through 2 world wars the invention of the not only the television but the radio as well, the evolution of the telephone and 2 Fundy Kingfishers championships. Sources close to the Hockey Voice report that some of her last words included that even if she had lived for another 115 years it wouldn’t be long enough to see St. George XXX win an FIHL championship. On a similar note, Edna made this humourous quote before she died; "If the XXX was really serious about cleaning up the league, why in hell don't they change that name?"
She was rumored to have all but passed on back in 2007 but when the Kingfishers assembled a squad for the first time in over a decade it gave her a reason to keep going. She took a turn for the worse in early November after XXX upset the Kingfishers early into the 08 /09 FIHL season and never got her step back again. She held on long enough to see her Kingfishers get their game back with 2 straight offensive slaughterings of their opponents, which put her at peace with the world once again prior to passing on.
Edna, has seen a lot over her years, such highlights as living through 2 world wars the invention of the not only the television but the radio as well, the evolution of the telephone and 2 Fundy Kingfishers championships. Sources close to the Hockey Voice report that some of her last words included that even if she had lived for another 115 years it wouldn’t be long enough to see St. George XXX win an FIHL championship. On a similar note, Edna made this humourous quote before she died; "If the XXX was really serious about cleaning up the league, why in hell don't they change that name?"
And what was her secret to such a long and active life? She didn't smoke or drink alcohol.
The oldest living person in the world is now though to be 115-year-old Maria de Jesus from Portugal.
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