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(Special To The Avalanche) AMESA, Sept. 1.—‘'For a moment, just a moment, she looked as though she were going to cry. Then, she threw back her head and forced a smile “He'll be home”, she said. “I know . That was Mrs. Edi Parker of Lamesa talking in January 1952, more than a year after her soldier husband had been reported killed in Korea. But she never believed it __ And tonight, that faith paid off. Coming Home At Last The Communists finally freed her soldier husband she met and married shortly after “the other war’’ in Italy. Set. Emmett V. Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Parker of O'Donnell was coming home at last. It had been a long haul—and a dreary one at times. There was the time the day after Christmas, 1950, when the government informed Mrs. Parker that her husband had been killed in Korea. Then seven long months drag ged by ... The government paid Mrs. Parker the $5,000 part of the GI _ insurance policy ‘‘Sonny ’ had made out to her, the other half being to his mother. Mrs. Parker took the money and put it into a home ‘‘for when he comes back . See LAMESA POW Page SGT. EMMETT PARKER He ‘“‘Came Back From The Dead”
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Lubbock Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Sep 02, 1953
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