Parker, 23, killed in crash

Posted on November 23, 2016

Never afraid to be silly if it won him a laugh, Justin Ray Parker was his usual happy-go-lucky-self at the Florida Forest Festival in October.

He spent the day walking around the park with his grandmother and couldn’t resist teasing her about becoming a great-grandmother.

“He was so excited to be a father. He was my first grandchild and his child will be my first great-grandchild,” Sherry Goff said. “I told him how part of his fun days were over but that better fun days as a parent were coming.”

The festival was one of the final times Parker visited his family here in Perry and it was the last time Goff saw her grandson.

The 23-year-old was killed in an early-morning, one-vehicle crash Sunday, Nov. 13, in Quitman, Ga.

PHOTO: A memorial service for Justin Ray Parker will be held at his mother’s home here in Perry tonight (Wednesday, Nov. 23).

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