SALISBURY - Ralph "Skip" Harris Parks, Sr. died on Monday, May 23, 2016, at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. Born in Tangier, Va., he was the son of the late Roland Lee Parks and Estelle Marion Parks. He was a World War II disabled veteran, who served in the U.S. Army. He worked for the Army Corps of Engineers as a field technician. He is survived by three sons, Ralph H. Parks, Jr., Terry R. Walter, and Andrew L. Walter; a sister, Joyce Shores; and several nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Johanna Beiser Parks; and his second wife, Velma Pruitt Parks; brothers, Owen, Bill, and Bache Parks; and sisters, Annette Diehl, and Betty Pruitt. A funeral service was held Friday, May 27, 2016, at Holloway Funeral Home in Salisbury. Interment was at Springhill Memory Gardens in Hebron.