Kelci Parks

Our precious Kelci left us on July 12, 2019, at her home in Fort Bragg, California. She was the daughter of John Jeffrey Hansen and of Cammie Dawn Moon. Born in Stillwater, Oklahoma on September 13, 1984. Her father had won an architectural scholarship to study in Europe and the three of them took off for France when she was 8 months old. She rode her little blue stroller through many of the architectural wonders of nine European countries, possibly influencing her to be the courageous traveler that she grew to be. She first saw the ocean in Normandy and must have fallen in love with it because she loved her adopted home in Mendocino County, California by the ocean, so very much. She began riding her Aunt Carrie and Uncle Rick's horses at age 13 and was fearless taking the turns around those barrels. Her best memory of riding was a Pony Express Race, (two teams on horseback doing a relay race around an arena) against a professional team. She had many friends throughout school and kept in contact with them beyond marriages and babies. She lettered in academics and discovered her love for photography in high school. On June 26, 2007, Kelci gave birth to Robert Jessen (RJ) Parks. She loved him with all her heart from that day forward. They had many adventures together hiking through the redwood trees at Montgomery Woods to bonfires at Glass Beach or just sitting around the table drawing or painting, encouraging his artistic skills. Her sole mission in life was to be the best mom to RJ and she did that exceedingly well. Kelci was an award winning photographer and she had always excelled in writing, so blossoming into a reporter was a logical next step. She truly loved fashion photography and the art of photography for arts sake. She did however, enjoy being in the thick of things, getting to chronicle the exciting and the mundane things going on around her. She truly loved all the people she worked with from her first jobs in Nevada with Pahrump Valley Times and the Tonopah Times Bonanza and Goldfield News to the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and The Beacon working as a reporter and photographer. Kelci had a giving heart. One Christmas when she and RJ didn't get to come home to Oklahoma, she baked big round loaves of artisan bread and then they drove around giving them to the people on the streets. More recently Kelci took in a woman who lived in her van with her animals. She needed to have a one day procedure and needed someone before and after to be with her. The world will be a less brighter place for all of us without Kelci in it. Kelci is survived by her son RJ, her father John Hansen and stepmother Lynn Hansen, her mother Cammie Moon and Michael Piechowski, her sister Callie Rivera and Alex Rivera along with their 3 children, Eli, Zeke,and Ella, her sister Rachel Hansen, her brothers, Jordan Lee and Justin Lee and wife Britney Lee and their daughter Norah, her grandmother Renee Hester and Dale Prather, her aunt Carrie Williams and uncle Rick Williams, grandfather CJ Hansen and Faye Hansen, uncle Terry Hansen and aunt JaDena Hansen, uncle Kendall Hansen and aunt Sue Hansen, uncle Troy Hansen and aunt Katie Hansen and multiple cousins. She is also survived by special friends, Beth Bolinger and of course, her newspaper family, all of whom she loved dearly. Donations are being accepted to a Benefit account for her son, RJ Parks. Please Mail to: Landmark Bank at 695 FM 120, Pottsboro, TX 75076 and attention it to Russel Petty.

Kelci Parks

September 13, 1984 - July 12, 2019