KINSTON – William Thomas Parrott, Jr., M.D., 80, of 1703 Cambridge Drive, passed away at his home Friday, December 27, 1996, after a courageous battle with cancer. Dr. Parrott was graduated from Grainger High School, and thereafter attended Darlington School in Georgia. In 1939 he was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. He was graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1943. During WW II, he served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and was Battalion Surgeon in the 28th Division in the Battle of the Bulge. After his Army service, Dr. Parrott became a resident in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical School, training under Dr. Eugene Stead. Dr. Parrott practiced internal medicine in Kinston from 1949 until his retirement in 1990. He was the last in a line of Parrott family physicians who have served Kinston and eastern North Carolina continuously for the past 101 years, beginning with Dr. Jim Parrott in 1895. “Doctor Tom”, as he was affectionately known by his patients, will be remembered by his old fashioned genuine love and concern for others and for his unselfish dedication of his life to the medical profession. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Kinston Elks Lodge, and numerous medical associations. He was honored by the Kinston Rotary Club by being named a Paul Harris Fellow. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30, at the First Baptist Church with Dr. Aubrey Jones and Rev. Camille Edwards officiating. Burial will follow in Maplewood Cemetery. Survivors include Shirley Hines of Kinston; four sons, William Thomas Parrott, III, and wife, Katharine of Vienna, VA, Charles Sellers Parrott and wife, Elizabeth of Raleigh, Robert Johnson Parrott and wife, Dida of Raleigh, and George Saxon Parrott of Beaufort, NC; a brother, Marion Arundell Parrott and wife, Lillian; and housekeeper and special friend of over 40 years, Doris Lawson, all of Kinston; and four grandchildren; William Thomas Parrott, IV and David Walker Parrott, both of Vienna, VA, and Robert Johnson Parrott and Elizabeth Merrick Parrott, both of Raleigh, NC. The family will receive friends from 7 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29, at Howard-Carter & Stroud Funeral Home, and afterwards from 7 to 9 p.m. at Dr. Parrott’s home at 1703 Cambridge Drive. (Pd. Obit.)
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