09/29/2021
The Parker Marine family says goodbye to a legend this week. George Roper was indeed a man whose deeds and actions spoke louder than his words. He was a stern leader but more so at the end of the day he was like a father to those who worked for him. A true Charlestonian in every sense of the word, his caring and compassion for others knew no bounds. As with many others who have gone before him from the Parker Marine family his name will live on because it will be spoken often. He is the true embodiment of a passage I learned long ago and that I try to adhere to every day. There have been very few individuals who have been truly defined by this in my eyes. Godspeed my friend.
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
- John Walter Wayland
