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HARRY A. PARKS
Harry A. Parks, realtor, was born July 9, 1915, in Evansville Indiana. He is the son of Harry Mathew Gottman M.D. and Bernice Olga (Purkaiser) Parks.
He received his education at Healdsburg (California) Grammar School; Todd Grammar School (Santa Rosa, California); Santa Rosa High School; University High School (Oakland, California); and University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Parks became associated with the Ford Motor Company at Richmond, California, in 1933; Colyear Motor Sales Company at Oakland, California, in 1935; Coca Cola Bottling Company, Oakland, in 1941; Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland in 1941; Hurley Marine Works, Oakland, in 1943; store Manager for the Colyear Motor Sales Company; and took part in defense work during the Second World War.
In 1944 Mr. Parks opened his own real estate business and insurance business in Oakland, California, and in 1945 opened a branch office in Walnut Creek, California. In 1951 he bought out Bruce McCollum’s office in Oakland, and now owns and operates the Grand Avenue and Franklin Street offices, Oakland, employing thirty sales people.
Member of the Oakland Real Estate Board; California Real Estate Association; Alameda County Taxpayers Association; Alameda County Apartment House Association; Diamond Lodge No. 603 F. & A. M., Oakland Scottish Rite Bodies, Aahmes Temple of Shrine; Contra Costa Real Estate Board; East Bay Chapter of Isaak Walton League of America; Oakland Chamber of Commerce; and the following clubs: Oakland Exchange, Lake Merritt Breakfast, Athenian Nile, Oakland Trade, and Commonwealth Club of California.
Mr. Parks married Virginia Lee Ellison, of Oakland, California, on September 1, 1939, upon her graduation from the University of California. They have three boys, Stephen Ellison, age 12 years; Ronald Allen, age 8 years; and Harry A., Jr., age 7 years. Their home is at 80 Irvine Drive, Orinda, California.
Marin office: 1444 Franklin Street, Oakland, California; branch office: 3415 Grand Avenue, Oakland, California.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page
537, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Joyce Rugeroni.
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