MaryAnn Parks, 70, died October 29, 2017. She graduated from St. Mary's School for the Deaf in Buffalo and then worked at the Corning Glass Works as a Data Entry Operator for 20 years. In the fall of 1989 she attended the National Technical Institute for the Deaf to study accounting. Upon completion, she moved to Phoenix, AZ, where she worked at ASU for three years before working as an instructional aide in the Students with Special Needs Department at the Phoenix Day School for the Deaf. She also taught ASL classes to preschool deaf students, chaired the Miss Deaf America Pageant, and chaired the Board of Directors of Arizona AIDS Services for the Deaf. She moved to Corning, NY in 1998. She and her husband operated their restaurant in Painted Post from 2000 to 2002. After that, she attended Keuka College to complete her BA Degree in Education and ASL instruction in 2004. She was employed by Corning Community College as an American Sign Language Instructor for at least ten years. She possessed a teaching certification from the American Sign Language Teachers Association. Prior to working at CCC, she worked as a teaching aide at the Northeast Elementary School in Ithaca, working with elementary deaf students and also taught ASL at STS BOCES. She is survived by her husband Ray S. Parks, Jr., a daughter, son, sister, three brothers, step son, five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. A Mass of Christian Burial was November 2nd at St. Mary's Church, 155 State Street in Corning. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made in her name to Susan G. Komen for breast cancer research or to All Saints Academy, 158 State Street, Corning, NY 14830. (Source: ASU Foundation)