Mother Vernie Bell Glover Parson

September 12, 1936 - December 8, 2019

Public Viewing for Mother Vernie Bell Glover Parson will be Friday, December 13, 2019 from Noon till 6:00 P.M. at A. A. Dicks Funeral Home, located at 2548 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201. Services will be held on Saturday, December 14, 2019 at Noon at Friendship Baptist Church, located 1237 House St, Columbia, SC 29204. Mother Vernie Bell Glover Parson, was born September 12, 1936 in St. Matthews, SC to the late Cokely and Evelyn Keller Glover. She departed this life December 8, 2019 in Columbia, SC. Ms. Vernie Bell was educated in the public schools of Calhoun County and earned a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Certificate from Midland’s Technical College. Before her health declined, she was a homemaker for several well-known families in and around the Columbia, SC area. She was a member and Mother of the church at Grace and Truth and Rejoice Christian Center where she was affectionately known as, “Mother Parson”. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Parson, a son, Mark Glover, Grandson, Antonio Furtick, her parents; a brother, Gene Glover and a sister, Catherine Mullins. Left to cherish precious memories are: her children, Robert (Linda) Glover, Furman Glover, Barbara (Singi) Hamidu, Larry (Jeanette) Furtick all of Columbia, SC, Lynn (Julio) Rodriquez of Jacksonville, FL, Benjamin Glover, Jamie (Minister Steven) Livingston, a niece, like a daughter, Paula A. Kelly and a grandson, like a son, Sean Rodriques; eighteen grandchildren; twenty-seven great grand children; eight great great grand children; brothers, Marvin (Linda) Glover and Leonard (Rosa) Glover; a sister, Cynthia Collum of St. Matthews, SC; special cousins, Ruby Mae Rowe and Betsy Lou Edmonds; special friends, Mrs. Katherine Jones, Mrs. Lorraine Akbar, Mrs. Ethel Hall, James and Angie Cross, Mrs. Eartha Robinson, Mrs. Willie Lakin and Minister Agnes Swinton and her two special furry friends, Cookie and Sabrina and a host of other relatives and friends. Please leave the family your condolences and prayers. The Glover family, acknowledges with grateful appreciation, all of your kind expressions of love and sympathy. Thank you for helping us care for our families. A. A. Dicks, Sr. and Staff