W. W. Parsons; U.S. Official, USC Professor
William W. Parsons, former assistant secretary of the Treasury Department during the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower administrations and more recently a professor at USC’s Graduate School of Public Administration, died Saturday at a Santa Monica hospital after a stroke. He was 79.
Parsons returned to teach at his alma mater after serving in Washington throughout the 1950s, as vice president of the nonprofit System Development Corp. during the 1960s, and as assistant regional manager of the U.S. General Accounting Office in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1970s.
His community activities included a directorship of the South Central Family Health Center.
A resident of Pacific Palisades, he is survived by his wife, Janette, three sons, a stepson, two grandsons, three brothers and a sister.
A memorial service is scheduled for Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. at the USC Faculty Center.
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