Arlene Lamm Parker
March 4, 1930 – March 14, 2012

Arlene Lamm Parker, 82, of Wilson passed away Wednesday following a brief illness.  Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Joyner’s Funeral Home.   Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park.  The Rev. Eric Vernelson will officiate.

The family will receive friends 7 –9 p.m. Friday at Joyner’s Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway.
 
Arlene was cherished by her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  She worked fifty-seven years in the grocery business.  She started with the A & P on Broad Street and for the past seventeen years was employed by Food Lion, most recently at the Food Lion at Peppermill Drive in Wilson.

Mrs. Parker is survived by her daughter, Tonya E. Kessler of Wilson; sons, Richard Thomas Eatmon and wife, Lou Ann of Wilson, James Mitchell Parker Sr. and wife, Beth of Wilson; granddaughters, Leslie Parker Nowell and husband, Peter, Breanna Rae Parker of Wilson, Victoria Jean Parker of Wilson; grandsons, Richard Blake Eatmon and wife, Wende of Wilson, Lee Thomas Eatmon and wife, Heather, James Mitchell Parker, Jr.; great-granddaughters, Kylie Grace Eatmon of Wilson, Alexandra Elizabeth Hawkins of Wilson, Kayla Ann Nowell of Wilson, Dailah Jade Parker of Wilson; great-grandsons; Parker Grey Eatmon of Wilson, Carson Thomas Eatmon of Wilson, Daniel Lee Hawkins, Jr. of Wilson, Peter James Nowell, Jr. of Wilson, Darren James Parker of Wilson; brother, Dwight Morris Lamm of Wilson.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Thomas Eatmon; parents, Rives Leon Lamm and Annie Pearson Lamm; brother, Marshall Leon Lamm and son-in-law, Dr. William Kessler.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to Living Faith Church, PO Box 7242, Wilson, NC  27895
 
Condolences may be directed to www.joyners.net