Christine May Parks

Christine May Parks, 73, of Cloquet, Minn., passed away Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012, at Sunnyside Health Care Center. She was born Sept. 19, 1939, in Soudan, Minn., to Christian and Virginia (Bruneau) Berg. Christine attended schools and graduated from Tower-Soudan High School. She worked several summers at the End of The Trail Lodge and at her aunt and uncle's resort on Saganaga Lake where she met the love of her life, David Parks. She and David where united in marriage in Tower, Minn., after her graduation from nursing school in Virginia, Minn., in 1959. Christine worked for the Virginia Hospital for a short time, and also for St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn. before starting a 43-year career at Community Memorial Hospital in Cloquet, retiring in 2002.