ADVANCE, Mo. — Ivan Henry Parker III, 84, of Advance died Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 19, 1924, in San Francisco, son of Ivan Henry ...

GRAHAM — Gospel music great Bill Gaither once told Ivan Parker “don’t ever forget what brought you to the party.” And Parker, an award-winning gospel artist in his own right, lives by those words ...

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Ivan Parker hopes those who attend Saturday’s gospel music concert at the Paramount Theater in Burlington “will leave differently than the way they came.” “They may come in that night feeling burdened ...