Background
Parrott, Alonzo Leslie was born on May 20, 1891 in Monterey, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas Carrol and Samantha (Hollaway) Parrott.
Parrott, Alonzo Leslie was born on May 20, 1891 in Monterey, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas Carrol and Samantha (Hollaway) Parrott.
Bachelor of Arts, A.M., Southwestern, Memphis, Tennessee, 1922. Bachelor of Divinity, Trevecca College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1922. Doctor of Divinity, Bethany-Peniel College, Bethany, Oklahoma, 1938.
Ordained to ministry of Church of the Nazarene, 1917. Pastor, First Church of Nazarene, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1917-1922, First Church, Bethany, Oklahoma, 1922-1931, First Church, Springfield, Illinois, 1931-1938. President Olivet Nazarene College, Kankakee, Illinois, 1938-1947.
Field secretary Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing from 1947.
Member Phi Delta Lambda. Club: Rotary.
Married Lucile Elliott, December 18, 1913. Children: Lorene (Mistress Ralph E. Perry), Alonzo Leslie, John Carrol.