Margie Sue Morse Parrott was born to William (Bill) and Lydia Morse in 1930 during the Great Depression. She had fond memories of her parents as loving hardworking people. Her dad was a farmer and could grow anything, but he was best known for his strawberries. She talked often of how times were hard when she was a girl but that her family always had enough to eat and somehow her mom always had a little extra to share.
Margie went to work as a teenager picking strawberries and cotton and later worked at a dairy. In 1949, she moved from Arkansas to Houston and took a job in a coffee shop where she met James (J.R.). He came in for coffee one day wearing dirty work clothes and she thought he was poor and felt sorry for him, so she gave him a cup of coffee. He liked her kindness and came back later all cleaned up and asked her for a date. They married shortly after and were married for 57 years before James passed away at the age of 88 years.
Back when people still fixed things, J.R. opened a water heater repair shop in Houston and they later moved their family to The Woodlands where he started work as a trim carpenter. Margie worked right along beside him until they retired some 20 years later. They moved to Etoile and lived on ten acres where they spent their days gardening and fishing until health issues forced them to move to Nacogdoches to be closer to family and doctors. After J.R. passed away, her sister, Ruth, moved in with her and they had a lot of good times going to the casinos around Louisiana. They had a circle of friends they played cards with until all the friends passed away. Margie loved feeding the birds and always had a plant or two growing in a pot, but her main hobby was jigsaw puzzles. She never worked anything less than 1,000 pieces and worked hundreds of puzzles over the years. She loved her family and took great pride in having raised good kids. She was proud of her grandchildren and showed their pictures and told their stories to anyone who stopped to visit.
Born in 1930 and growing up during WWII, Margie learned to be resourceful and thrifty. She washed out jars, saved baggies, kept empty coffee cans, old phone books and just about anything else that might be reused for another purpose one day. In a way, she was green before recycling was trendy, but she recycled out of necessity not lifestyle.
She was quick with a joke and had a sweet disposition. She had a strong sense of right/wrong and was quick to defend her own. She was a strong woman, always pulling herself up by her bootstraps and expecting others to do the same. She will be so greatly missed and her passing leaves a huge hole for those that loved her.
Margie is survived by her son, Mark Parrott & wife Donna; daughter, Connie Parrott Schaefer; grandchildren, Lindsay Landrum, Natalie Evans & husband Andy, Hayden Schaefer & wife Hannah, Tina Renee Parrott Philbrick & husband Kirk, James Parrott & wife Erin, Damien Tijerina & wife Kimberly and, Megan Hausenfluck; ten great grandchildren and one great- great grandchild, as well as many other loved ones and a host of friends.
She is preceded in death by her parents William Ernest Morse and Lydia Catherine Humphrey Morse; loving husband, James Raymond Parrott; son, James Michael Parrott; and siblings, Jean, Ruth, Clyde, Crockett, Brigg, and William.
A Celebration of Margie's Life will be held at 10:00am, on Saturday, June 22, 2024, at Pace Funeral Home, in Livingston, Texas, with Brother Chris Knox officiating.
Private interment to follow at Sunset Memorial Park in Nacogdoches, Texas.
If you would like to make a memorial contribution, the family request donations be made in Margie's name to the American Heart Association or the American Diabetes Association.
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