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Ann Christine Ipen Parks

1931 – 2020

Posted 9/25/20

Ann Christine Ipsen Parks, 89, died peacefully at her home in Keytesville on 09 September 2020 of natural causes.

The daughter of Adele Norregaard Ipsen of Oslo, Norway, and Mogens Ipsen of Arhus, …

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Ann Christine Ipen Parks

1931 – 2020

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Ann Christine Ipsen Parks, 89, died peacefully at her home in Keytesville on 09 September 2020 of natural causes.

The daughter of Adele Norregaard Ipsen of Oslo, Norway, and Mogens Ipsen of Arhus, Denmark, Ann was born in Rockford, Illinois, on February 5, 1931. Following the death of her father in 1944, she and her mother moved to Laguna Beach, California. As a teenager, Ann spent a year in Oslo, Norway, attending Kunst og Handverk Skole (formerly the Royal Academy of Art) and Nina Theis Husholdningskole, where she learned international culinary arts and appreciation among students from all over the world.

After graduating from Laguna Beach High School in 1949, Ann attended Orange Coast College in Irvine, California, and on May 17, 1954, married Charles Fletcher Parks in Solvang, California. They lived for 15 years in Long Beach, California and had four children. In 1968 the family moved to Fletcher’s birthplace, Keytesville, Missouri, where they bought and restored the Gen. Edwin Price home southeast of Keytesville, where Ann lived until her death.

Mrs. Parks was a member of the Junior League of Long Beach, Almeria Miller Club of Keytesville, the Salisbury Golf and Bridge Club and Friends of Keytesville, and a was a board member of Ashby Hodge Gallery of American Art in Fayette, Missouri,  Asbury Church, and the Keytesville Library, among other organizations throughout her five decades in Keytesville. She was a lifelong Democrat and a member of the Howard County Progressives and Chariton County Democrats.

Her mother, Adele Ipsen, died in 1986 in Laguna Beach, and her husband, Charles Fletcher Parks, died in 1998 in Keytesville.

Ann is survived by her children, Brian Groves Parks of Portland, Oregon, Rebecca Lynn Parks of San Juan Island, Washington, Peter Ipsen Parks of Portland and William Jordan Parks of St. Louis, Missouri; and two grandchildren, Wynn Adele Barnard and Parks Elliott Barnard, both of Seattle, Washington.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a celebration of Ann’s life will be held at a later date.

Memorial donations may be made to the Asbury United Methodist Church Cemetery.