 After a service at Fairchild Chapel, he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.His widow, who was then living at 998 Fifth Avenue, died in May 1956.The Parsons owned a house down the street from F.W Woolworth (who was at 990 Park Avenue) at 1071 Fifth Avenue in New York (today the site of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) and a large home at 72 Avenue Foch in Paris, which later was confiscated by the Nazis and became the base of operations for the Gestapo in Paris.