[2] A talented contralto, she went to the Royal College of Music at 17, and made some appearances prior to her marriage, in 1900, to Edward Kent-Parsons, a commission agent.
[2] Qualifying as a Woman Sanitary Inspector in 1911, Kent-Parsons gained employment with the London Borough of Tottenham as a Health Visitor, remaining so until 1945.
[2] In the same year, alongside Dr Sophia Seekings Friel, she established a School for Mothers in St. Anne's Ward, Tottenham, an area with a high rate of infant mortality.
[2][4] She then joined the voluntary committee of the first creche to be opened in Tottenham, which became an influential example for the founding of the Maternity and Child Welfare Department of the BC.
[2] Jessy Kent-Parsons died in a Torquay nursing home on 26 February 1966, remembered for her 'zeal... abundant vitality and great sense of humour'.