JOHN HENRY PALMER

SMITH, PALMER, STAHL, DRESSER, BURT, MORGAN

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 3/25/2003 at 22:20:22

JOHN HENRY PALMER

The death of John Henry Palmer, long time Waukon resident, occurred Tuesday, May 11, [1965] at Waukon Veterans' Memorial Hospital where he was a patient for 12 days. He had been in poor health for the past year. He was born December 22, 1880 in Franklin township and was a son of William Henry and Emma Smith Palmer.

He was educated in the local schools and was a school teacher. Later he was Allamakee county auditor for 12 years, and was also employed as a bookkeeper. January 8, 1903 he married Delia May Stahl in Franklin township and they were parents of four children.

Survivors are his wife, three daughters: Mrs. Felicia Dresser, Postville; Mrs. Earl (Elinor) Burt, Chicago, and Mrs. Harry (Theresa) Morgan of Lawndale, California, and a son Wilson of Chillicothe, Ohio; ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Mr. Palmer was a member of Forest Mills EUB church, Masonic Lodge, MeMolay Consistory and Eastern Star.

Funeral services were held Friday, May 14, at 2:00 p.m. in St. Paul's Methodist Church in Waukon with the Rev. Jack DeLong officiating. Interment was in the Odd Fellows cemetery in Rossville with Masonic graveside services.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.