1954
Cynthia
2022
Cynthia Linn Parish
August 24, 1954 — September 1, 2022
Cynthia (Cindy) Linn Parish, 68, of Orange County, Texas, passed away at her home on 2022/09/01.
A Memorial Nature Walk will be announced soon in her memory.
Cindy was born in Sweetwater, Texas to parents Eddie Thomas and Shirley (Massey) Thomas on 1954/08/24. She moved with her grandparents from Abilene TX to Port Neches as a child, and moved again with them to Spurger, TX, where she completed high school as Salutatorian. She was Tyler County Rodeo Queen in high school and enjoyed barrel racing and pole bending. Cindy graduated from Lamar University and worked at Georgetown Steel before becoming a mom. She returned to Lamar University, accumulating Masters of Science and Doctorate degrees, and thoroughly enjoyed teaching sciences at Beaumont ISD’s Ozen Campus, where she was awarded Science Teacher of the Year for Texas in 2009. She then became a professor of Geology at Lamar University. After her retirement from Lamar, she took great delight in photographing nature and wildlife, traveling to photograph everything from whales to whooping cranes. She enjoyed bee keeping, painting and gardening, but took greatest delight in her grandchildren.
Cindy was a member of Texas Master Naturalists, Texas Master Gardeners, The Sierra Club, The Deep East Texas Archaeological Society, the Art Studio, the Beaumont Camera Club and a director for Southeast Texas Clean Air and Water, Inc.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Thomas Edward Massey and Mary Linn Massey, her parents Eddie Gayle Thomas, Sr. and Shirley Hurd, brothers Eddie Gayle Thomas, Jr., and John Alfred Thomas.
She is survived by her husband Dale Meredith Parish; children, Russell Craig Mercer and wife Johana Melagrani Mercer and granddaughter Chiara N. Melagrani; Carrie Linn Irvin and husband Christopher Chandler Irvin, and grandchildren, Chandler Craig Irvin and Cecelia Marie Irvin; brother Kenneth Leslee Hurd and wife Melissa Hurd of Beaumont; sister Lisa Carmalettia Morphis and husband Mikel Morphis of Needville; brother Joe Bill Thomas and wife Jo Ann Thomas of Valrico, FL.
A Memorial Nature Walk will be announced soon in her memory.
Cindy was born in Sweetwater, Texas to parents Eddie Thomas and Shirley (Massey) Thomas on 1954/08/24. She moved with her grandparents from Abilene TX to Port Neches as a child, and moved again with them to Spurger, TX, where she completed high school as Salutatorian. She was Tyler County Rodeo Queen in high school and enjoyed barrel racing and pole bending. Cindy graduated from Lamar University and worked at Georgetown Steel before becoming a mom. She returned to Lamar University, accumulating Masters of Science and Doctorate degrees, and thoroughly enjoyed teaching sciences at Beaumont ISD’s Ozen Campus, where she was awarded Science Teacher of the Year for Texas in 2009. She then became a professor of Geology at Lamar University. After her retirement from Lamar, she took great delight in photographing nature and wildlife, traveling to photograph everything from whales to whooping cranes. She enjoyed bee keeping, painting and gardening, but took greatest delight in her grandchildren.
Cindy was a member of Texas Master Naturalists, Texas Master Gardeners, The Sierra Club, The Deep East Texas Archaeological Society, the Art Studio, the Beaumont Camera Club and a director for Southeast Texas Clean Air and Water, Inc.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Thomas Edward Massey and Mary Linn Massey, her parents Eddie Gayle Thomas, Sr. and Shirley Hurd, brothers Eddie Gayle Thomas, Jr., and John Alfred Thomas.
She is survived by her husband Dale Meredith Parish; children, Russell Craig Mercer and wife Johana Melagrani Mercer and granddaughter Chiara N. Melagrani; Carrie Linn Irvin and husband Christopher Chandler Irvin, and grandchildren, Chandler Craig Irvin and Cecelia Marie Irvin; brother Kenneth Leslee Hurd and wife Melissa Hurd of Beaumont; sister Lisa Carmalettia Morphis and husband Mikel Morphis of Needville; brother Joe Bill Thomas and wife Jo Ann Thomas of Valrico, FL.
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