Parker Post Masters

Parker Community Historical Society
Parker, Kansas

PostMasters and Officers in Charge serving the Parker Post Office

POSTMASTER TITLE DATE APPOINTED
J.W. Parker Postmaster December 22, 1888
Nannie V. Seaman Postmaster February 8, 1889
Erastus Clemans Postmaster July 13, 1893
Benjamin T. Newbold Postmaster May 20, 1897
Benjamin F. Winchel Postmaster April 5, 1906
William C. Dysart Postmaster February 4, 1914
Walter R. Dysart Postmaster December 8, 1922
Earl H. Prentice Acting Postmaster September 30, 1954
John M. Hampton Postmaster April 16, 1956
Jean Nickell Officer in Charge June 19, 1973
Jean Nickell Postmaster November 9, 1974
Bernadine Cochran Officer in Charge July 15, 1977
Bernadine Cochran Postmaster February 12, 1978
Ronald Sobba Officer in Charge June 26, 1981
Carlene Brownback Postmaster November 28, 1981
Tammy Brownback Officer in Charge December 13, 2002
Louise Stites Postmaster April 5, 2003

Rural Carriers who have served the Parker area

Route #1
Charles L. Curtis July 1, 1911 March 1, 1937
Charles R. French April 1, 1937 September 5, 1945
Cady I. Lemon (Temp) July 6, 1944 August 30, 1947
Eldridge Walker September 2, 1947 March 10, 1951
(Military Leave) March 12, 1951 December 31, 1952
Cady I. Lemon (Temp) March 12, 1951 December 31, 1952
Eldridge Walker January 2, 1953 September 2, 1980
Elwood Conklin October 4, 1980 November 23, 1986
Nancy Brownback January 31, 1987 May, 1995
Allen Edgerton May, 1995

Route #2
Chauncey A. Beal September 16, 1924 July 21, 1927
Halbert D. Dysart (Temp) August 1, 1927 March 26, 1928
Clarence E. Cochran March 26, 1928 October 24, 1962
W.H. Polley (Temp) October 25, 1962 November 22, 1963
Elwood Conklin November 23, 1963 January 31, 1973
(Transferred to Leroy, Ks.) February 1, 1973 October 3, 1980

Thanks to Louise Stites for this information in 2004.

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