 He served on the Board of Directors at Joseph's House, an organization for men with AIDS and co-founded Servant Leadership School.In April 1992, he drove a school bus more than 3,000 miles from Washington, D.C. to deliver supplies to an orphanage in San Salvador.Parr died of congestive heart failure at a hospice in Washington, D.C. on October 9, 2015, aged 85.