Feb 16, 2021
Jacqueline Marie (Parker) Beckford, 75, of Marion, passed away at home with her children by her side on Feb. 6, 2021, four days after her 75th birthday.
Jacqueline was born on Feb. 2, 1946 in Darby, PA to Alice (Carpenter) & LCDR Francis Parker. As a child she loved to vacation in Harpswell, ME with her family. She played tennis, enjoyed swimming and won many trophies from her days on the basketball court.
After graduating from Melbourne High, she moved to Melrose, MA. There she met the love of her life, the late George W. Beckford, Sr., who asked her to marry him on their first date. They were married within the year and enjoyed 54+ years of marriage. They went on to have four children whom she cherished. Jacqui dedicated her life to her family, children and precious grandchildren. She enjoyed riding on the back of her husband’s Harley and had fond memories of trips to Lake Winnipesauke, Maine and Quebec.
Feb 13, 2021
Jacqueline Marie (Parker) Beckford, 75, of Marion, passed away at home with her children by her side on Feb. 6, 2021, four days after her 75th birthday.
Jacqueline was born on Feb. 2, 1946 in Darby, PA to Alice (Carpenter) & LCDR Francis Parker. As a child she loved to vacation in Harpswell, ME with her family. She played tennis, enjoyed swimming and won many trophies from her days on the basketball court.
After graduating from Melbourne High, she moved to Melrose, MA. There she met the love of her life, the late George W. Beckford, Sr., who asked her to marry him on their first date. They were married within the year and enjoyed 54+ years of marriage. They went on to have four children whom she cherished. Jacqui dedicated her life to her family, children and precious grandchildren. She enjoyed riding on the back of her husband’s Harley and had fond memories of trips to Lake Winnipesauke, Maine and Quebec.
Many readers grew nostalgic this week, sharing memories of watching movies such as “Grease,” “Titanic” and “Young Frankenstein” at Bethlehem’s Boyd Theatre.
Felicia Curry as Jacqueline Marie Butler
It is a long, LONG way from Queens to Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Vermont. Such is the series of journeys that form Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl trilogy of single-actor plays. Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is now streaming the final entry in the series, “Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains,” directed by Associate Artistic Director Paige Hernandez and starring Felicia Curry.
By itself, this is a gorgeous piece of theater well worthy of one’s time. It is also a highly persuasive argument to see the other plays of the trilogy.
In the first two installments, we saw Jennings’ character, Jackie, transition from girlhood in New York to adolescence at the International School in Nigeria. There she endured more than just the typical fish-out-of-water ordeals, code-switching her way through a different world’s idea of the mid-1960s. As this installment begins, we find Jackie returning to the U.S., enrolled at Bennington C
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