[3] After his second tour ended in 1953, he joined the athletic staff at the University of Idaho as head baseball coach and assistant in football and basketball.
[3] Parberry led the Vandal baseball program for four seasons,[5][6] then transferred to the physical education department, where Wayne Anderson succeeded him as head coach.
He and his wife Viola relocated to McCall, where they had owned and operated summer cabins on Payette Lake for decades.
The following summer, Parberry died there of a heart attack at age 64,[1] and is buried at the city cemetery.
A scholarship in physical education at the University of Idaho is awarded in his honor.