Biography
Parnell was born in Orlando in Cleveland County in southern Arkansas. Parnell attended public schools and graduated from Warren High School in Warren, Arkansas. After graduation, he worked as a bookkeeper and store clerk and farmed in Chicot County in southeastern Arkansas.
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