{"id":11801,"date":"2021-04-16T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=11801"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:25:36","slug":"in-memory-dr-willis-parker-pu-dvm-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/in-memory-dr-willis-parker-pu-dvm-64.php","title":{"rendered":"In Memory: Dr. Willis Parker (PU DVM \u201964)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Purdue Veterinary Medicine family is saddened to learn that a loyal and well-known alumnus in the College of Veterinary Medicine\u2019s second graduating class, Dr. Willis Parker, of Clayton, Ind., passed away yesterday.\u00a0 He was 84.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The College of Veterinary Medicine had opened just a year before Dr. Parker earned his Bachelor of Science degree in animal science at Purdue in 1960.\u00a0 He went on to enroll as a member of the college\u2019s Class of 1964.\u00a0 He had a long and distinguished career that included positions with the American Breeders Service and W. R. Grace &amp; Company.\u00a0 In 2000, he received the College of Veterinary Medicine\u2019s Distinguished Alumnus Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arrangements are pending.\u00a0 The family anticipates holding a memorial service at a later date.\u00a0 More information will be provided as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Purdue Veterinary Medicine family is saddened to learn that a loyal and well-known alumnus in the College of Veterinary Medicine\u2019s second graduating class, Dr. Willis Parker, of Clayton, Ind., passed away yesterday.  He was 84. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,29],"tags":[107,1267,178,1990],"class_list":["post-11801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-our-people","tag-alumni","tag-dvm-class-of-1964","tag-obituary","tag-willis-parker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11801"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11810,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801\/revisions\/11810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}