Parker Cemetery

Wellsville Cemetery. WELLSVILLE – Wellsville City offices closed Monday until 2 p.m. for the Ralph Anderson Parker funeral. Parker, 71, a longtime fireman, was laid to rest Monday with family, friends and fellow firefighters from across Cache Valley paying their respects. Parker passed away Tuesday, August 20 from complications of esophageal cancer.North Logan and Logan City ladder trucks hoist a flag for Ralph Parker, a former fire chief for Wellsville City who passed away Tuesday, August 20 from cancer.Ladder trucks from Logan and North Logan hung a large American Flag for the procession to pass under. Several firemen in their dress uniforms saluted the flag-draped casket as it passed by.Hundreds gathered at the Wellsville Cemetery for the internment.City Manager Scott Wells said Parker was a dependable and talented guy.“Ralph could do about anything,” Wells said. “He ran the sprinkler and irrigation system for the Wellsville Park.”Wells said Parker would always look for something that needed to be done and do it. If he found a shovel that needed repairing, or any other piece of equipment, he would fix it.“He was very well-liked and didn’t want to be in the spotlight,” the city manager said. “He was good at seeing a project in the city that needed to be done and taking care of it.”Ralph Parker a former fire chief for Wellsville City wanted to be carried to the cemetery in a Humvee. Parker passed away Tuesday, August 20 from cancer.Gerald Leishman, the current Wellsville Fire Chief, said Ralph Parker was always one to do the work and didn’t want any recognition.“He always had fingers in something, and he didn’t want anyone to know what he was doing,” Leishman said. “His family wanted him to ride in the back of the fire truck to the cemetery, he told me he didn’t want to ride in no damn fire truck. I want to ride in a Humvee. His wife and daughters had no idea.”He said Parker was very humble and quick witted.“I t...

The plan calls for a 463-square-foot, single story addition. The chapel, constructed in 1923, is in the northeast corner of the cemetery's 54 acre site,  adjacent to Washington Avenue. The chapel building is used as a gathering place and for administrative functions. The addition will include an assembly room, kitchenette, coatroom, and bathroom for people with disabilities. A ramp for people with disabilities is also planned. The building will be connected to the municipal sewer system and its on-site septic system will no longer be used.Paul Azzinaro, of Azzinaro Larson Architects, wrote in a narrative that the work would be done in accordance with the character and aesthetics of the existing building. He told the Planning Board, during its July 16 meeting, that the work would include re-exposing the building's high ceilings and its fireplace, which were covered during a remodeling project in the 1980s."The building has great character for the era. It's almost a sculpture-type building," Azzinaro said. "Materials will be similar to what is there. I think it fits in beautifully."Azzinaro asked if the Planning Board's preliminary and final plan review could be combined and performed administratively, but Scott Levesque, the board's lawyer, said the cemetery's representatives would be required to return for another appearance before the board.Planning Board member Jason Parker, a former town planner, asked the board to review its development plan review requirements, saying the regulations are overly demanding. "It's not really doing the applicant any good if we're putting them through the ringer," he said.Todd J. Romano, the lawyer for the Zoning Board of Review, said he had spoken with Lisa Pellegrini, director of development services, about the point Parker made. Town Planner Nancy LeTendre agreed, saying the regulations are cumbersome and difficult to interpret.The cemetery's representatives will return to the Planning Board after receiving a special use permit from the zoning board.  During an initial ...

She described Bradford Parker as a bit of a recluse who loved to play guitar. She arrived in Troy and found that hundreds had turned out for her brother's funeral.Parker joined the U.S. Navy at age 17 and served from 1970-71. He grew up in a brownstone on Eagle Street with four siblings. He had a failed marriage that produced two kids -- a boy and a girl who now live in the Carolinas. Parker died at age 66. ...