Ms. Marion Mullen

THE LIFE OF MARION PARKER-MULLEN On Thursday evening, February 5, 2015 at about 9:00 PM the Angel of Mercy was dispatched to the bedside of Marion Parker-Mullen at New York Methodist Hospital. The hospital records indicate that Marion made her transition from life-physical to life-eternal that evening. "Mom", as she was affectionately known to all who met her, was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on April 2, 1928 to the late Hattie Stallings and Moses Parker. She was educated in the public school system of Elizabeth City. Her Grandmother Minnie and her Mother Hattie were both faithful church women who raised "Mom", her two brothers and five sisters in the Faith. As a child she was converted at the Mount Lebanon African Methodist Episcopal Church of Elizabeth City where she received the Spirit of God. She lived the rest of her life loving God and His People. On June 15th, 1944, Marion married Richard Erskine "Pee-Wee" Mullen, two weeks after his graduation from P. W. Moore High School, and began to make a home and raise a family. In 1955 she and her husband moved from Elizabeth City to Brooklyn, New York where "Mom" continued to direct the life of her family. She raised five well-mannered and beautiful children. Tony who married the late Elizabeth Brown-Mullen, Gerald and his wife Amelia Wilson-Mullen, Ruth Mullen-Washington and her husband the late Booker T. Washington, Faye Mullen-Pruden and her husband, Leroy and the late Wilma Mullen who was married to the late Christina Murriell-Mullen. "Mom" and "Pee-Wee" were married for 58 years before his demise in 2002. He was her "soul-mate". "Mom" was an accomplished cook and seamstress and the house was always filled with the wonderful smell of "something cooking". Friends and relatives loved coming to "Mom's" house and she loved being gracious and hospitable. "Mom" lived a good life as the "overseer" of her little clan and their friends. Wherever she took her family, she was willing to take any of their friends. Although, "Mom" will be greatly missed, she leaves behind in addition to her own four living children, sixteen grandchildren: Deborah, Kim, Laverne "Denise", Andre`, Avery, Curtis, Leroy, Eugene, Alethea, Sharon, Leroy, Juanita, Derrick, Tara, Ricky and Serlina; thirty-six great-grandchildren, ten great-great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, grand nieces, grand nephews, cousins and a host of "Adopted Children" and friends.

Ms. Marion Mullen

April 2, 1928 - February 5, 2015