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2010
Eileen Parker, 86, a secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1966 to
1991, died of renal failure April 20 at her home in Silver Spring.
Mrs. Parker held clerical and secretarial jobs since the 1940s, including stints with
the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development. She helped plan international conferences for the State Department
from 1958 to 1962.
Eileen Owens was a native Washingtonian and a 1941 graduate of McKinley
Technical High School. She was the sister of the late Joseph E. Owens, a
four-term Democratic state delegate from Montgomery County who chaired the
Maryland House Judiciary Committee.
Her memberships included St. Camillus Catholic Church in Silver Spring.
Her husband, Patrick M. Parker, whom she married in 1947, died in 1986.
Survivors include seven children, Kathleen Scutt of Syracuse, N.Y., Michael
Parker of Annapolis, Kevin Parker of Washington, Belinda Raminhos of
Germantown, and Terrence Parker, Timothy Parker and Moira Parker, all of Silver
Spring; three brothers, Emmet D. Owens of Anacortes, Wash., Dermot M. Owens
of College Park and James K. Owens of Medford, Mass.; and nine grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein
Eileen Parker, 86, a secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1966 to
1991, died of renal failure April 20 at her home in Silver Spring.
Mrs. Parker held clerical and secretarial jobs since the 1940s, including stints with
the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development. She helped plan international conferences for the State Department
from 1958 to 1962.
Eileen Owens was a native Washingtonian and a 1941 graduate of McKinley
Technical High School. She was the sister of the late Joseph E. Owens, a
four-term Democratic state delegate from Montgomery County who chaired the
Maryland House Judiciary Committee.
Her memberships included St. Camillus Catholic Church in Silver Spring.
Her husband, Patrick M. Parker, whom she married in 1947, died in 1986.
Survivors include seven children, Kathleen Scutt of Syracuse, N.Y., Michael
Parker of Annapolis, Kevin Parker of Washington, Belinda Raminhos of
Germantown, and Terrence Parker, Timothy Parker and Moira Parker, all of Silver
Spring; three brothers, Emmet D. Owens of Anacortes, Wash., Dermot M. Owens
of College Park and James K. Owens of Medford, Mass.; and nine grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein