She was born in Lethbridge Alberta in 1943 while her father was overseas. Her and her mother lived in Toronto with his parents until he returned at the war’s end. Siblings  Bob and Brian followed in 1947 and 1951 respectively, and they lived primarily in south-central Ontario, Canada.  

By age twenty she’d moved to the US where she would spend the remainder of her life, settling in the Bay Area and living near UC Berkeley, working as a cocktail waitress at a high end bar on the afternoon shift while spending her mornings transcribing and typing research papers for various Berkley faculty. She ended up hiring three other women plus herself to handle the growing task. It was during her time in Berkeley her friends gave her the nickname Joey, which she used for the rest of her life.  
 
One afternoon during her cocktail shift a frequent customer bemoaned to her that he had a building in Oakland the he couldn’t rent out. Sensing an opportunity, Joey offered him $5.00 per sq ft rent, and she established Executive Office Services. This company for young professionals providing a “turn-key” office with a flat monthly rent plus typing and courier services. During this period she married Lee Parker and took his last name. She later remarried Thomas Sadinski, a jeweler, and they lived in Walnut Creek near Oakland into the 1980s. It was in the recession of the early 80’s that Executive Office Services closed and Joey moved to Sacramento, purchasing and operating several income properties and continued with that success until the mid-2000s when she decided to retire and move to Sun City Center Florida, where she lived until her passing in November of 2022.
 
While always far from family she took many opportunities to visit family in Canada. On one of her last visits before her parents’ passing, her mother asked Joey to promise that she would eventually return to Canada. Joey kept that promise and she will lie beside them at the family plot in Barrie, Ontario.  

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Beverley Alison Parker

October 6, 1943 – November 15, 2022

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