Bonnie Parker

Bonnie Parker

Actor 1910-10-01 Rowena, Texas, USA

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in 1910 in Rowena, Texas, the second of three children. Her father, Charles Robert Parker (1884–1914), was a bricklayer who died when Parker was four years old. Her widowed mother, Emma (Krause) Parker (1885–1944), moved her family back to her parents' home in Cement City, an industrial suburb in West Dallas where she worked as a seamstress. As an adult, Bonnie wrote poems such as 'The Story of Suicide Sal' and 'The Trail's End', the latter more commonly known as 'The Story of Bonni...