\r\nthe VDT<\/a>;\r\n<\/a>\r\nBorn in Salley, SC on Dec. 23, 1918\r\n
\r\nDeparted on Jun. 21, 2013 and resided in Hahira, GA.\r\n
\r\nVisitation:\t No Visitation\r\n
\r\nService:\t Private\r\n
\r\nCemetery:\t Private\r\n
\r\nJesse Lyle Parrott, M. D.\r\n\r\nDr. Jesse Lyle Parrott, 94, husband of Nancy Wainer Parrott for 58\r\nyears, died peacefully at home in Hahira on Friday, June 21, 2013.\r\nHe was born in Salley, SC on December 23, 1918 to the late Lily\r\nPrice and Glen Peake Parrott during the historic influenza epidemic.\r\nAt the age of 12 he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior,\r\nwas baptized and joined the Methodist Church. He attended high\r\nschool in Collins, Ga during the Great Depression. He worked as a\r\ngas station attendant, a “drugstore cowboy” and in the CCC until he\r\nentered South Georgia College in Douglas, GA. Eventually he received\r\nhis Bachelor of Science pre-med degree from the University of\r\nGeorgia where he was also proctor of the football dormitory.\r\nEntering Medical School at the Medical College of Georgia under the\r\nNavy program he was commissioned as an intern at the naval Hospital\r\nat New Orleans and Pearl Harbor. Following completion of training,\r\nDr. Parrott was assigned to a flotilla of landing craft as the\r\nsingular medical officer. Duty was principally in the\r\nMarshall-Gilbert Islands. In 1945, Dr. Parrott moved to Hahira, GA\r\nto join the practice of his brother in law, Dr. Raymond Smith at\r\nSmith Hospital. He worked 16-18 hour days in General Practice for 40\r\nyears during which he delivered over 5,000 babies, performed\r\nthousands of surgical procedures and treated many thousands of\r\npatients. The exception to his devotion to patients was his\r\nafternoon off every Thursday during which he fished with his father\r\nin law, the late David Samuel Wainer or his best friend, H. M.\r\nBarfield and then took his bride and family out to dinner. Dr.\r\nParrott abruptly retired from private practice due to macular\r\ndegeneration. He served another 15 years as the Chief Medical\r\nDirector of the South District Detoxification Facility at Smith\r\nHospital. Dr. Parrott was President of the South Georgia Medical\r\nSociety, served as mayor of Hahira from 1957-1958 and again from\r\n1987-1993. He was a long term member of Hahira United Methodist\r\nChurch serving in many roles as well as Sunday School teacher for\r\nthe Adult Class. He was also a member of the Valdosta Rotary Club.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
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<\/a>\r\n\r\nPicture by Church Street Coffee<\/a>\r\n
\r\n\r\nAlong with his beloved wife, Dr. Parrott is survived by his two sons\r\nwhom he adored, Dr. Jonathon Parrott and his wife, Katie of Valdosta\r\nand their three children, Rutledge, Emma and Sarah Gray and Mr.\r\nStephen Price Parrott and his wife, Karen of Spartanburg, SC and\r\ntheir three children, Jessica, Sam and Bonnie. Numerous nieces and\r\nnephews. Dr. Parrott is predeceased by his five siblings, Glen Peake\r\nParrott, Dorothy P. Starling, Val Alan Parrott, June P. Smith and\r\nPatricia P. Williams.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nFollowing a private family graveside committal service the family\r\nwill receive friends at 701 South Church Street, Hahira, GA on\r\nSunday, June 23rd between 4 and 5:30 p. m. in the glorious yard that\r\nJesse gardened, planted, tended and loved for over 50 years. In lieu\r\nof flowers memorials may be made to the Georgia Sheriff’s Boys\r\nRanch, 5671 Highway 122 East, Hahira, GA or to the Hahira United\r\nMethodist Church, 100 East Stanfill Street, Hahira, GA. Condolences\r\nto the family may be expressed online at www.mclanecares.com.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last several times I saw him he reminded me that his illness was terminal, but it still comes as a shock. I was one of the many babies he delivered. -jsq Picture from the VDT; obituary via McLane Funeral Services, Jesse Lyle Parrott the VDT; Born in Salley, SC on Dec. 23, 1918 Departed […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[602,41,19],"tags":[8701,8791,8718,8709,6494,8702,12,7,6],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hahira","category-health-care","category-history","tag-georgia","tag-hahira","tag-health-care","tag-history","tag-jesse-lyle-parrott","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-16P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}