Parker James Reed Parker, Jr. passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at the age of 70 in Beaufort, South Carolina due to lung cancer. Reed was born in Smithville, Tennessee and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Reed Parker, Sr., both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Alec O. Parker (grandparents) and Bundy and Hilda Parker Bratten (uncle and aunt, deceased) raised Reed in Smithville where he graduated from high school and later attended Tennessee Technological University.