[1][2][3] On March 9, 1916, Susie was 19 years old,[4] five months pregnant and in her apartment at the back of the Columbus Courier newspaper office with her 15-month-old baby.

[8] In the early morning hours of March 9, she placed a distress call to Deming and alerted Captain A. W. Brock, commanding officer of 1st Company of the National Guard.

[10][11] During the raid Parks was shot in the neck, and both she and the baby were covered in glass fragments from broken windows damaged by gunfire.

At age 12, after her brother was killed by a log roll on Lake Washington, the family took a train to Columbus, New Mexico.

At age 17, she met Garnet E. Parks, a soldier assigned to the 12th Infantry at the Post of Columbus, and they married on February 6, 1914.

On August 27, 1916, the wife of L. Bradford Prince, New Mexico's territorial governor, and the Daughters of the American Revolution recognized her for her heroism at the Crystal Theater in Columbus.

[21] When the puncture was discovered, he began to recover but was left with a morphine dependency that crippled him, and the family that had grown to five children.

[24] In 1946, she married Delco Kendrick[25] and the two spent their remaining years traveling the country, visiting their children and grandchildren, playing music, and square dancing.