Hoping to find family members who may have more info. They still have records showing his body was taken to Pennington Crematorium.
Parkhurst, was living in Pennington.īrian K: "Blackwell Funeral Home handled the services and Parkhurst, Jr., was living in Madeira Beach, Florida. Kenneth Magner of the First Presbyterian Church performed the service.Īt the time of his death he and his wife, Kathleen Nixon Parkhurst (whom he had remarried after two failed marriages) were living at Washington-Crossing Funeral services were held Thursday, January 22 atīlackwell Memorial Home. Lois Wilson ascribed his death to drinking. He died after a long illness at Glenwood Sanitarium in Trenton, New Jersey, on January 18, 1954, at the age of fifty-seven. owes Hank a debt of gratitude for his many contributions during his all too short period of sobriety. He did get back on the program for a short time at some No one knows exactly when Hank had started drinking again, but in the diary Lois Wilson kept there are various September 1939 entries that mention that Hank was drunk. Went to Cleveland to try to start problems for Bill there. office out of Honor Dealers, Hank was furious.īill paid him $200 for the office furniture (which he claimed he still owned, but which had been purchased from him earlier), in exchange for Hank turning over his stock in Works Publishing, as all the others had done. Hank wanted to divorce his wife, Kathleen, and marry Ruth, and when Ruth decided to go with Bill when he moved the A.A. There were other problems over money, and over Ruth Hock. Group members, Bill listed himself as the sole author of the Big Book as a means of counter-balancing this.
Problems developed between them over the way Hank was setting up Works Publishing Co., as a for profit corporation, with himself as President. And Hank wrote, except for the opening paragraph, the chapter To Employers.īut Hank became very hostile toward Bill. Ruth Hock said the Big Book would not have been written without Bill, and it would not have been published without Hank. Bill Wilson and Jim Burwell worked there for a time and Bill dictated most of the Big Book to Ruth Hock in this office. According to one source, he had conceived it as a way of getting back at Standard Oil, which had fired him. It is the little company mentioned on page 149. Hank had a small business, Honor Dealers, in Newark, NJ. He and Jim Burwell (The Vicious Cycle), lead the fight against too much talk of God in the 12 steps, which resulted in the compromise God as we understood Him. Bill and Lois moved in with Henry Parkhurst on April 26, 1939, when the bank foreclosed on the 182 Clinton Street house When Bill and Lois lost their home on Clinton Street, Brooklyn, it was to the Parkhurst home in New Jersey that they moved for a short time.
Silkworth warned Bill he might become dangerous.) Silkworth described who seemed to be a case of pathological mental deterioration. The first mention of Hank in the Big Book is on page xxix of The Doctor's Opinion. He wound up at Towns Hospital, where Bill found him in the fall of 1935. Hank was a salesman, an agnostic, and a former Standard Oil of New Jersey executive, who had lost his job because of drinking. Original date of sobriety was either October or November 1935. #2 in New York prior to resuming drinking about four years later. Hank was the first man Bill Wilson was successful in sobering up after returning from his famous trip to Akron where he met Dr. The Unbeliever - Henry (Hank) Parkhurst, New Jersey. Bills second pigeon from Towns 1:01 P 194-205 DOS 11/35 Slipped 9/40 and others 2:01 Dropped
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