Margaret “Maxine” Bond Parker passed peacefully in her sleep in the early morning hours of Monday, June 22, 2015. ” Maxine,” as she was known to all of St. Martin was born on December 28, 1930, the only daughter to Loren Bond and Alice Edwards Bond. Our mother leaves her family with a legacy of faith, family and friends. Maxine believed the true wealth of an individual was measured by these three priorities. Maxine was voted Miss St. Martin in 1949 and was a Star basketball player. She was also voted Best All-Around Student by her classmates and teachers. To this day, her children and grandchildren are told stories of the “most beautiful woman” in St. Martin. As a young stay-at-home mom, this was something she took advantage of as the neighborhood “Avon Lady.”
She accepted the Catholic faith through the sacraments of baptism, first communion and confirmation in 1950-1951 culminating with the sacrament of marriage to the love of her life for fifty-six years, Vearl Fabian Parker. Together they raised four children- her only daughter Sondra Caillavet (Marc) and three sons, Fabian Eugene, Kevin Lee, and Vearl Dwayne (Charlene). In her twilight years, Maxine showered her affections on her eight wonderful grandchildren, Colin (Jennifer), Joshua, and Saybhr Caillavet, Jeremy (Melissa), Luke (Jamie), and Bobby Joe Parker, Alice Roebuck (Will); and Jesse Parker and ten great-grandchildren, Hailey, Will, Olivia, Patrick, Peyton, Anna, Paisley and Emily Parker, Cayden Caillavet, and Oliver Roebuck.
Maxine was employed as a teacher assistant for Ms Mildred Foster in Biloxi Public Schools at Gorenflo Elementary for many years. After retirement from Bell South as an engineer, she enjoyed entertaining the area priests, gardening, craft-making, painting and cooking for family and friends; often dragging the UPS man off his truck for a “country meal and a glass of sweet tea.”
Maxine was preceded in death by her husband Vearl, her parents, Loren and Alice, four brothers, Clyde, Louis, her twin- Wallace, and Edward Pat (Zelma) Bond. Maxine is survived by two sisters–in-law, Dorothy and Beryl Bond; Also left to cherish her memory are numerous nieces and nephews of the Bond and Parker families and close friends, especially her BFF, Dolores Tiblier Lee.
The family appreciates all the love and care she received from her care-giver, Carol Redmond, Carol’s family and the Saad’s Hospice family.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Monday, June 29, 2015 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in D’Iberville, Ms at 11:00 am. Visitation will be held from 10:00 until 11:00. Burial services will follow at the Biloxi National Cemetery where she will be interred with her husband of fifty-six years. The Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, the family prefers donations to the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Sacred Heart Church, 10446 LeMoyne Blvd., D’Iberville, MS 39540.