Margaret Catherine Parkman

Margaret C. Parkman, 97, (Mrs. Virgil E.), of Emporia, died Saturday, August 5, 2017 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor.


Funeral services will be 11:00 A.M. on Friday, August 11, 2017 at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home. Pastor Phyllis L. Stutzman of the Emporia Presbyterian Church will be conducting the service. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery. It is suggested that in place of flowers, that memorial contributions might be made to the Presbyterian Church, the Good Samaritan Fund at Emporia Presbyterian Manor, or the Friends of the Emporia Public Library. Donations may be sent in care of Roberts-Blue-Barnett.

Mrs. Parkman was a graduate of the Pagosa Springs High School, Pagosa Springs, CO. She received an Associate Degree from Colorado Woman’s College, Denver, CO, now a part of Denver University. She earned both her Bachelor and Master’s Degrees from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Additional graduate study was done at Texas University for Women, Denton, TX; Colorado University, Boulder, CO; Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and Emporia State University. She taught home economics for thirty-two years in Colorado and Kansas schools with twelve of those years at Olpe High School and eleven years at Kansas State Teachers College, now Emporia State University. Mrs. Parkman retired from teaching in 1975 and was a Kansas resident since 1948.

Margaret Catherine Corrigan, the daughter of James Francis and Elsie Belle Stevens Corrigan, was born October 5, 1919 at the family farm in the Beaver Creek area of La Plata County, near Bayfield, CO. She married Virgil Earl Parkman in 1957. He died March 9, 1999. She is survived by one daughter, Linda Ann Black of Litchfield Park, AZ; nine step-grandchildren; seventeen step great-grandchildren; many step great-great-grandchildren; and one niece and one nephew. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; an infant son, John Roy Parkman; a step-son, Eldon V. Parkman; two step-daughters, Mary Lee Egner and Iyla M. Carter; a brother and spouse Francis Lyn and Barbara Corrigan; and a step-grandson, John Robert Carter.

Mrs. Parkman was a member of the Emporia Presbyterian Church (First Presbyterian Church) since 1950. As a college student, she was a member of Beta Sigma Chapter, Delta Zeta Social Sorority and she was awarded the Order of the Rose for fifty years of membership. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma International Society, a teacher’s honorary organization since 1947. She held memberships in Kansas National Education Association, the American University Women’s Association, Friends of the Emporia Library and the Flint Hills Genealogical Society. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Margaret Catherine Parkman, please visit our flower store.