Her mother was Staff member (chief maid) Margaret 'Maggie' Rogers who
served for 30 years (1909-1939), during the administrations of Taft,
Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's.
Lillian Rogers Parks worked as a seamstress from 1931-1961, during the
administrations of Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower.
She was married briefly to Wheatley Parks. She had polio as a child and
walked with crutches into adulthood which perhaps gave her and Franklin
D. Roosevelt a special bond. She collaborated on the book 'My Thirty
Years Backstairs at the White House' with Frances Spatz Leighton,
chronicling her years working at the White House and going back to
childhood recollections of being in the White House when her mother
started working there.
