Lorene was born January
5, 1930 near Bernie, Missouri and attended school in the Bernie area. She
is married to Robert Parris. Lorene met Bob while attending the 9th
grade at Bernie High School. She has said all the girls were talking about
that cute new boy from St. Louis one day in the hall between class
changing. Bob winked at her and she winked back and that she says began
their friendship. They were married May 31, 1947 at Piggot,
Arkansas. Glenda (Peck) Robbins and her husband-to-be were their
witnesses.
Bob and Lorene lived in
St. Louis until 1958, then Paducah, Kentucky from 1958 to 1964, then to Poplar
Bluff, Missouri from 1964-1974, and finally moving to West Plains, Missouri in
1974.
Lorene has stated she is
most thankful for being raised in a Christian home with a good gentle mother,
who was firm but never angry. She says the family never ate until her Dad
asked the blessing. Lorene was saved as a young girl at Sugar Tree Church
one fall night when she had walked to church with Kenneth and Freida.
Denzil and Wilma went with her the Sunday afternoon she was baptized in a ditch. |