Rebecca Burns Parker was born near St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Missouri State University in Springfield with a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a minor in sociology. She has lived in Atlanta, Georgia, for thirty years, where she had a public relations and marketing business that specialized in event planning and introduced international companies to the Atlanta area. She has been active in charitable and community service and on educational advisory boards. She has been married for twenty-five years and is the mother of two children.

Tribute
With loving thanks to my husband, Robert Parker, for his support and patience, and with heartfelt thanks to our children, Blake and Mackenzie, for their love and continuous enthusiasm during the development of this book.
I also thank the staff of Brown Books Publishing Group for their patience and persistence in pursuing the details and vision of the Remembering My Father that was in my heart.
rbparkeratlanta@aol.com