Almeda Combs Parker was born August 21, 1916 to Albert and Hettie Grayson in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. Almeda was the sixth child of ten children. She is preceded in death by her parents, seven brothers and two sisters. She graduated from Douglass High School in Wewoka, Oklahoma in 1936, and earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Education at Langston University in 1940. She received her Master's Degree in Business from University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and did further studying at the University of Denver, Oklahoma State University and Doctoral candidate at Texas Technological College in Lubbock, TX. Mrs. Parker married William Parker in 1940 and remained for 53 years until his passing in 1993. She began her career at Langston University in February 1943 and She retired from Langston University on July 29, 1983. Mrs. Parker was a founding member of the Langston Federal Credit Union, examiner for State Personnel Board, co-authored a college textbook, College Typewriting: A First Year Course, published by Pittman Publishing 1961. She served in many other associations during her course of life. She accepted Christ as her personal savior at a very early age, and was a faithful member of Holy Family Episcopal Church in Langston until the church was dissolved. She continued to remain active in her christian involvement and to worked through the Langston University Chapel. Mrs. Parker leaves to cherish her memory her son, Bill Freeman of Los Angeles, California; her nieces and nephews; her great nieces and nephews; her cousins, a host of other relatives, her sorority sisters of Alpha Upsilon Amega Chapter, in Alpha Zeta Chapter, in the Mid-Western Region, all of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated; her Langston University Alumni, her brothers and sisters in Christ and many other friends.