PARK, Roy Hampton
Ithaca, N.Y.
10-27-1993

A memorial service for Roy Hampton Park, 83, who died Monday in New York City after a brief illness, will be held in the First Presbyterian Church at 1 p.m. Friday.

Burial will be private, for immediate family only.

Park was born near Dobson, N.C. in 1910 and made a career of turning adversity into opportunity. Park was chairman and chief executive officer of Park Communications Inc., a television, radio and newspaper conglomerate with properties in 24 states and annual revenues of more than $160 million. Park Newspapers owns the Sapulpa Daily Herald.

Park was actively engaged in the management of his companies until a few days before his death.

He was a member of the Board of Trustees that built the new Museum of Television and Radio in New York City, a trustee of the Boyce Thomson Institute for Plant Research and an advisor to the Johnson Graduate School of Management, both at Cornell, as well as other boards and commissions.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Dent Park; son Roy H. Park Jr.,; daughter Adelaide Park Gomer; sister Ethel Park Broome of Winston-Salem, N.C.; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.


April 2001 Peg Luce - Obit Transcriber