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Zillah Lee Parker, longtime Hidden Valley on the Pecos River enthusiast peacefully went to see our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Saturday, March 13, 2004. She was 81. Known as Pat to many after settling in Albuquerque in 1949 she was cherished as a loyal and true friend. She is survived by her loving husband, Ernest Leland Parker to whom she had been married for 61 years; her sons, Daniel Glen Parker and his wife, Ellen, James Henry Parker and his wife, Lynn, Raymond Ernest Parker and his wife, Natalie, and daughters, Camille Lee Parker, and Pamela Marie Smith and her husband, Roy and by one sibling, Leland Hogan and his wife, Donna. She is survived by seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren all of whom she adored. Pat migrated to New Mexico from her roots in Mississippi where her father was a lifetime Baptist minister. A working mother she was a Sandia Labs and Albuquerque Public Schools employee until opening her own restaurant in Pecos, New Mexico. Her college coach named her Pat after introducing her when he came across her real name which he could not imagine or comprehend. Found in Genesis, Zillah was a descendent from the land of Nod East of Eden. Services will be at Strong Thorne Mortuary, 1100 Coal SE on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. A reception to follow at Albuquerque Meadows Retirement Center.
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