Celebrating 'a local life well lived'

Popular Handsworth man, 101, laid to rest last week

COMMUNITIES ACROSS Birmingham are mourning the death of the popular everyman Jonathan Stanley Parkes, who passed away a month short of his 102nd birthday in his adopted home in the second city recently.

A native of Fair Prospect, Portland in Jamaica, Jonathan was the last of six children born to Kalem and Caroline Parkes.

REUNITED

As a young man, Parkes worked as a cook for the Moncrieff family on the Caymanas plantation in the parish of St. Catherine.

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