Zena Marie (Kessinger) Parrish

 Zena Marie Kessinger Parrish of Hodgenville, formally of Green County, passed away Sunday, December 12, 2021, at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, having attained the age of nineteen years, six months and nine days.

She had made a profession of faith in Christ and was a member of Campbellsville Baptist Church.  She attended Green County Middle School and Green County High School.  She graduated from Taylor County High School in 2020.  She is preceded in death by one nephew:  Bentley Allen Kessinger.

She is survived by her husband:  Matthew Owen Jesse Parrish and her infant son:  Jesse Matthew-Scott Parrish, of Hodgenville, her father:  Joseph Kessinger of Greensburg, her mother and stepfather:  Caroline Lawson Jewell and husband Billy of Springfield, KY, three brothers:  Joseph and Cynthia Kessinger, JR and Damon and Nickole Kessinger of Greensburg, Kaden Kessinger of Greensburg. Grandparents:  John and Mary Kessinger, Rose and Darrell Smothers, Hammer Lawson, grandparents-in-law:  Owen and Mollie Parrish and Nancy and Junior Goins, great grandfather-in-law:  Rev. Dan Perkins, mother-in-law and step father-in-law:  Monica and Jo DeLeon, brother-in-law:  Daniel Parrish, father-in-law and step mother-in-law:  Scott and Mandy Slayton, nieces and nephews:  Brynlee Polston, Leah Kessinger, Joseph Oliver Kessinger, Jennifer Marie Kessinger. 

Funeral services for Zena Marie Kessinger Parrish will be conducted 2 p.m. Central Time Wednesday, December 22, 2021, at Foster-Toler-Curry Funeral Home in Greensburg.  Burial will follow in the Perkins Family Cemetery in Magnolia.  Visitation will be 10 a.m., Central Time, until the funeral hour.

Pallbearers:   Damon Kessinger, Joseph Kessinger Jr, Darrel Smothers, Jr., Daniel Parrish, Autumn Babbs, Stevie Allen, Thomas Sallee, Chaz Babbs

Honorary Pallbearers:  Jesse Matthew-Scott Parrish and Kaden Kessinger

The family has requested that expressions of sympathy be donations to family burial fund and these can be made at the funeral home. 

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