Obituaries : Hazel R. Parcells, 106; Nutritionist

Hazel R. Parcells, 106, a nutritionist who survived a case of tuberculosis contracted during World War I and went on to lecture about good health and long life. Doctors told Parcells in the late 1920s that there was nothing more they could do about her tuberculosis, “and I believed them,” she recalled. She brought herself back to health by self-taught methods of natural healing. In 1950, she established Sierra States University, a nutrition school in Los Angeles. The school closed in the 1960s. She moved to Albuquerque in 1970 and created the Parcells System of Scientific Living. Last year, she founded the Parcells Center in Santa Fe as an educational outlet. Her autobiographical nutrition book, co-written with Joseph Dispenza, is to be published this year. On Sunday in Sapello, N.M.