Stanley Vincent Parker was born October 26, 1885, in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1906.  He was among the first Coast Guard personnel selected for aviation training and on July 5, 1917, was designated Coast Guard Aviator #4.  When World War I began, the Coast Guard was assigned as part of the U.S. Navy and Parker thus served with the Navy during the war.  In 1934 he passed the California Bar and was assigned to Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C.  Shortly after the declaration of war following the attack on Pearl Harbor, then CAPT Parker was promoted to rear Admiral on March 1, 1942, and served as the District Coast Guard Officer of the Third Naval District and Captain of the Port of New York.  For his exemplary service during the war he was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal.  Following the war, RADM Parker was the Pacific Cost Coordinator and Commander, Western Area.  He served in that post in San Francisco until his retirement with the rank of Vice Admiral on November 1, 1947, ending his 41-year career in the Coast Guard.  VADM died at his home in Oakland, California, on July 15, 1968, and he is  buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.  He was survived by his wife and two sons.

Submitted by CDR Roy A. Mosteller, USNR (Ret)