The Parker and The Gentleman

[C.O.B.]

"Squirt" is alive and well living in Michigan. She just turned 80 and still works about 30hrs a week in the same dental office as she has for probably 30 years. Squirt learned to tell one gun from another by the stocks when she was very young.

James E. White was my Grandfather and he was one hell of a trap shot. He broke 200 straight from 16yds in 1935 to winn the class C championship at the Detroit Gun Club. I still have the trophy. His favorite trap gun was a Parker and to hear mom tell the story in or close to 1948-9 he was on his way to Mayo Clinic and stopped off at Abercrombie & Fitch in Chicago and came home with a Parker trap gun. Mom said it was the A1 Special and she still remembers the fight her parents had because he spent $600 on a gun when they didn't have $600. They really did live off his poker winnings.

Unfortunatly Grampa died early in 1952, I came along in October of that year. Mom said he never shot that particular Parker as he had a stroke and passed two years later. It was his wish that the Parker go to a friend of his who otherwise couldn't afford it. All his guns were sold, given away etc. The only thigs I have of his are the trap trophy, a Marbles knife and a S&W M10 (5 screw) .38 spl and his love of Parkers and upland birds esp Mr. Bob White.