Albert Parker

Albert Conley Parker 

July 2, 1935 – October 26, 2023.

Culloden, GA – The Reverend Albert C. Parker passed away in his home Thursday, October 26, 2023. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, November 3, 2023, at Culloden Baptist Church on Church Street in Culloden, Georgia, with The Reverend Garth Forster officiating, followed by internment in Geneva Cemetery, Geneva, Georgia, where John Mark Parker will serve as Officiant.  

“Brother Parker,” as he was known throughout most of his life, was the youngest son of the late Franklin Jefferson Parker, Senior, and Naomi Lee Gallops Parker of Geneva, Georgia. Reverend Parker joined the Armed Forces of the United States serving in the Army Reserves until 1965. The same year he began military duty, Reverend Parker married the late Grace Bradshaw Parker. The young couple moved to Macon, Georgia, and began studies at Mercer University. While in college, he worked at Robins Air Force Base and trained with IBM. In 1964, he graduated from Mercer with a Bachelor of Arts degree. A first-generation college graduate, he valued education and continued learning throughout his life, returning to Mercer’s Tift College of Education where he studied to become a classroom teacher.  

Reverend Parker was ordained to ministry by Geneva Baptist Church in 1961, and he accepted the call to be Pastor of Culloden Baptist Church, and he served the congregation for nearly 60 years. A bivocational minister, Reverend Parker also made a career as a civil servant and was employed as a computer analyst at Robins Air Force Base for more than 30 years and was invited to return after retirement for contract work. Reverend Parker enjoyed gardening, and for many years, he planted an acre of vegetables and fruits, which not only fed his family but was shared with neighbors as well. In later years when his health prevented him from continuing such efforts, he enjoyed working with his daughter and son-in-law in their vegetable and herb garden. Health and fitness were important to him, and he ran several miles each day for much of his adult life. For more than a decade, he ran with his sons in Atlanta’s Peachtree Road Race and Macon’s Labor Day Road Race. 

Survivors include children, John Mark Parker of Atlanta, Jennifer Lynn (John Thomas) Coleman of Culloden, and James Christopher (Melisa McElmurray) Parker of Culloden and Hawkinsville as well as nieces, nephews, and members of his church family.  

Please visit www.monroecountymemorialchapel.com to express your condolences.  

Monroe County Memorial Chapel 86 West main Street Forsyth has charge of the arrangements.