Render Terrell Parham, Jr.

Render Terrell Parham, Jr. died Monday, November 2, 2026, after a brief illness.

His family will receive guests during the visitation on Sunday, November 8, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., at Almon Funeral Home, 548 Newnan St, Carrollton, GA 30117. In lieu of flowers, please consider sending a donation in Terrell’s honor to a diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, or veterans’ foundation.

He is survived by Margaret Ann Laney Parham, his beloved wife of 50 years; Keri Parham Adams, his daughter, her spouse, James Adams, and their children Olivia Ann and James Render; his treasured sister Deborah Jane Parham Wynn, her husband, Edgar H. Wynn, Jr., and their children and grandchildren; his cherished sister-in-law Ruth Laney Anderson and her children and grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his mother, Mildred Ophelia Ellerbee Parham, and his father, Render Terrell Parham, Sr. (S. Sgt., U.S. Army-Air Force).

Terrell was born on September 14, 1946, to Mildred and Render Parham in West Point, Georgia. He shared many fond memories of growing up in Hogansville, Georgia, with devoted parents, grandparents, his “one and only” sister, and many childhood friends and cousins. He grew up with a love of airplanes, trains, art, and family history, and found his calling as a pharmacist, talented photographer, and devoted husband, father, and grandfather.

Terrell was a proud graduate of Hogansville High School (1964) and the University of Georgia’s School of Pharmacy (1968-1970), along with a few years spent at the University of West Georgia (1964-1968). He had a five-decade career as a retail pharmacist with Eckerd, Rite Aid, and Wal-Mart in Georgia and Florida. He made many friends and cherished colleagues throughout his life, including at the Hampton and Carrollton (Maple Street) Waffle Houses, with whom he enjoyed sharing life stories and jovial anecdotes.

He enjoyed traveling to historic places, museums, family reunions, and Panama City Beach. He was a talented genealogist, researching both his and his wife’s family histories through research in records and archives, visits to cemeteries, and unabashedly asking for every new family member’s history to add to his family tree. He saved and preserved family and personal treasures, including photographs, drawings, business records, antique furniture, and his father’s military service pins and photographs. He enjoyed seafood, especially his shrimp boils on each beach trip, oysters on the half shell, vodka martinis served up with a couple of olives, model trains, watching planes land at the local airport, computers and new technologies, black coffee, history books and documentaries, long and thoughtful conversations with his wife, hearing about his grandchildren’s academic accomplishments, and reminiscing with his sister during their daily phone calls.

Terrell will be deeply missed by those who he loved unconditionally. The ones who had the honor of calling him husband, father, brother, cousin, uncle, friend, and Granddaddy. We will think of him when watching the sunset on the beach, hear a train’s horn as it passes through a crossing, the Georgia Bulldogs win a game, we eat oysters on the half shell, and we feel the absence of his hearty laugh.