Marci Lynn Parrott Chaddick of San Marcos, a pastor’s wife and former missionary to Ethiopia, died at home Jan. 4 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 53. She was born March 4, 1971, in San Antonio to Dennis and Myra Parrott. Soon thereafter, her family moved to Tyler, where her father was on staff at Green Acres Baptist Church. She graduated from the University of Texas-Tyler with a degree in elementary education and from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a master’s degree in religious education. She was appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board to teach missionary children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. After a year in Ethiopia, she returned to the United States to serve on staff in Texas Baptist churches, first in Lake Jackson and then in Denton. While she was working as the preschool minister at First Baptist Church of Denton, she met Chad Chaddick through an online dating site. They were married nearly 21 years. Her greatest joy was to be a stay-at-home mom and home-school mother to their daughter Mia. She also found great joy in playing her flute, serving with the music ministry at First Baptist Church of San Marcos. She often said playing the flute was her offering of worship to God. She is survived by her husband Chad; daughter Mia; parents Dennis and Myra Parrott of San Marcos; and her brother Keith Parrott and his wife Kristy of Birmingham, Ala. A memorial service is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 in the chapel at San Marcos Baptist Academy. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the missions fund or music ministry fund at First Baptist Church of San Marcos.
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