Jacquelyn Huggins (Parrott)

Jacquelyn Curly Huggins was a loving, passionate and devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend. She was a beautiful soul that embraced each role with much passion, much love, much endurance and much strength. “Jacque”, “Beav”, “Auntie”, “Jacko” and “Shorty 2” as she was often referred to by family and friends throughout her life was born in the Bronx, New York at Morrisania Hospital on July 25, 1951, three long minutes before her twin sister and wombmate Marilyn. She was the second youngest of her five siblings and stood proud in her role as little sister to Butch, Delana and Gregory and big sister to her identical twin Marilyn. Jacque spent a significant portion of her childhood (with her parents Emily Marie Parrott and Edward Hunter Parrott, Sr. and her four siblings) living in the Bronx, in Harlem and then in New Jersey with many memories and friendships developed in the Grant Houses on West 125th & LaSalle Street. Of these friendships formed, Jacque would remain in touch with her dear friends Carolyn Lynch-Khera, Daphne Bailey and Butch Coleman until her Sunset. Jacque accomplished many accolades early on and established other long friendships along the way. She graduated from Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey in June of 1969. She made her debut alongside her peers at her cotillion and was supported by organizations such as the NAACP and the Urban League. She attended Bay State College in the Dorchester section of Massachusetts to concentrate in business and even went back to school (Lincoln Tech) in her later years to pursue medical coding & billing. She established a career decades long as a legal secretary working for various New York based law firms and developed a tenacious drive for staying busy while embracing fashion and fun along the way. Even through her illness, she worked. She loved her independence, her family and friends, her jobs, her apartment(s) and shopping. She is recognized for her inside and outside beauty, her intelligence, her big heart, her feistiness, her loyalty, her strength, her ability to have fun and her smile. She was ultra opinionated and strong-willed but graceful and dainty all at the same. She was the life of the party. She loved riding with the top down in her Mazda Miata. She loved Brooklyn’s Pizza and Bonchon Chicken. She had to buy two or three of everything but budgeted though she spent. She was a great host who embraced a love for cooking like her father, the late Edward Parrott, Sr. She was a loyal and thoughtful friend. Jacque created many travel memories with her niece, her sister and many of her friends in the States and abroad. She loved her high-school reunion cookouts at Bear Mountain where she would reunite with many of her Teaneck High School buddies. She brought her family each time making it a warm and embracing tradition. Jacque in her 72 years of life impacted many people through her friendships, relationships and acquaint encounters. She was married for a short time in 1975 and had a few long-term loves. When she fell ill, she was embraced by her team of nurses in hospice care and warmed their hearts with her ability to fight the good fight and have a great attitude about it along the way. Jacque’s God Squad is a group of family and close friends that dedicated time to be by Jacque’s side through this great fight. She was grateful to the God Squad (Carolyn, Melissa, Kim, Phyllis and Marilyn) and others who checked in on her regularly with a visit to her home or a visit to the hospital to give love and support. Jacque is a true example of a warrior, a queen, a forever friend and angel to all of us. Jacque is predeceased by her parents, Emily Marie Parrott and Edward Hunter Parrott, Sr., her two brothers Gregory Parrott and Edward “Butch” Parrott, Jr. and her sister Delana Parrott. Jacque is survived by her twin sister Marilyn Parrott, her nieces Melissa Mitchell and Tabu Irby, her nephew Maurice Savage, her great-nieces and nephews, her cousins and a host of very dear friends who love and miss her deeply.

Jacquelyn Huggins (Parrott)

July 25, 1951 - January 29, 2024