Maynard "Rip" Parrish. Rest in Peace.

I got to meet Rip when I was a very young kid. A great family friend and Tavern Owner Gregg "Tuffy" Henderson was a friend of Rips, backed and traveled with him occasionally. A lot of my enjoyment of the game of pool came from me getting to watch him match up. May he rest in peace and I hope somehow he realizes how much watching and talking with him meant to me. Gregg is also gone now to, and he also left a very lasting impression on me, he was my #2 Dad. Thank you both, Brian.
 
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a1712 said:
I got to meet Rip as a very young kid. A great family friend and Tavern Owner Gregg "Tuffy" Henderson was a friend of Rips, backed and traveled with him occasionally. A lot of my enjoyment of the game of pool came from me getting to watch him match up. May he rest in peace and I hope somehow he realizes how much watching and talking with him meant to me. Gregg is also gone now to, and he also left a very lasting impression on me, he was my #2 Dad. Thank you both, Brian.
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RIP Gregg. We all need to make our friends know we love them
 
a1712 said:
I got to meet Rip as a very young kid. A great family friend and Tavern Owner Gregg "Tuffy" Henderson was a friend of Rips, backed and traveled with him occasionally. A lot of my enjoyment of the game of pool came from me getting to watch him match up. May he rest in peace and I hope somehow he realizes how much watching and talking with him meant to me. Gregg is also gone now to, and he also left a very lasting impression on me, he was my #2 Dad. Thank you both, Brian.
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Are you from Monmouth? I am married to Maynard’s brother Bob.
 
RIP Parish sister-in-law said:
Are you from Monmouth? I am married to Maynard’s brother Bob.
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No, I met Rip at Greg's Tavern in Quincy, PA. He was quite the talk here in the pool circle also. We had a great conversation about him at pool league Thursday evening. He had been to my Tavern several times through the years, in Waynesboro, PA. Brian.
 
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DynoDan said:
Maynard was born early/mid forties, and Ralph didn’t die until 1950, so it IS possible he visited his hometown, and played a child in one of the Monmouth rooms then that DID admit them (?). Unlikely though. Don‘t know how old Maynard was when he started playing, BUT, he definitely WAS the best player in town, and likely a 100 ball runner by the time I first encountered him in the room where I hung out as a young teen. I watched him beat the ‘Knoxville Bear’ (Eddie Taylor) at 3 cushion back in the early 60s, (though not at banks or 14.1). Maynard was a stylish 9 baller, who broke from the headrail on our local 9 footers with slow cloth (preferred a ‘whippy’ snooker shaft then). I recall a two-day-long session with a Rock Island (?) hot-shot/shortstop, who was eventually sent home broke!
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Too bad I missed the 14.1 game he won against Eddie (newspaper article link), as I had to leave for a class. Didn’t occur to me they likely played another after I left. Sorry.
 
sjm said:
Sorry for your loss.
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I met Rip when he was in the army he was I believe 33 I was 15 my dad would stake him against players Pete Fusco,monk Pittsburgh John he player on a 4x8 Irving Kaye table at the Belvoir grill in Accotink Va he was a good player and am sorry to hear of his passing
 
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