Lucille Knipp Parsons

October 28, 1930 - January 8, 2016

Lucille Knipp Parsons age 85 of Newfoundland, Kentucky passed away Friday, January 08, 2016 at St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead, Kentucky. She was born October 28, 1930 in Carter County, Kentucky a daughter of the late Johnathon and Virginia Dyer Knipp. In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by her husband of sixty-four years, Gabriel Ernest Parsons; two brothers, Raymond Knipp and Elwood Knipp; one sister, Faye Crockett Evans. Lucille attended Newfoundland Community Church, she was a retired Northeast Outreach Coordinator. She enjoyed sewing, working, gardening, spending time with her family, especially her great grandsons. She is survived by three sons and daughter-in-laws, Gary and Cathy Parsons, Charles and Debbie Parsons and Rocky and Bonita Parsons; one daughter and son-in-law, Dena and Malcolm Smith; one brother and sister-in-laws, Arnold and Lucille Knipp, Lecta Knipp, Doris Knipp and Mary Alice White Gilliam; seven grandchildren, Susan and Geoff Rothman, Misty Skaggs, Jennifer and Jason Skinner, Kari and Jon Hart, Eric Parsons, Elizabeth and Paul Augustus, Miranda Smith five great grandsons, Logan Skinner, Jude Skinner, Warner Rothman, Hudson Rothman and Weston Hart. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 12, 2016 in the Chapel of Waddell & Whitt Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Elliott County Memory Gardens in Sandy Hook, Kentucky. Friends may visit after 6 p.m. Monday and after 9 a.m. Tuesday until the service hour at the funeral home.