Elwood J. Palmer

BLEVINS, CALEY, DICK, HAINLINE, PALMER, STEPHENSON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/29/2006 at 20:34:12

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 27, 2001

ELWOOD J. PALMER, Truro

Elwood J. Palmer, 73, of Truro died June 23, 2001, of a respiratory ailment at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services were held today (Wed., June 27) at 10:30 a.m. at Kale Funeral Home in Osceola with the Rev. Richard Harbart officiating. Burial was at St. Charles Cemetery with military rites performed by St. Marys American Legion Post and Masonic rites presented by Model Lodge of St. Charles.

Elwood Palmer was born Nov. 29, 1927, in Creston to Glenn Elwood and Rachel Bernice (Hainline) Palmer. He was educated in the Thayer schools. An Army veteran of the Korean conflict, he married Elizabeth A. Stephenson on July 31, 1954, in Des Moines. Elwood had worked for Marquette Concrete in Des Moines for 17 years, returning to full-time farming in 1971. He was a member of American Legion Post 716 in St. Marys, V.F.W. in St. Charles (past commander), Model Lodge 315 A.F. & A.M. in St. Charles (past Master), Congregational Christian United Church of Christ in Truro, and had been a former Interstate 35 Community School District Board memer.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, of Truro; two sons, Tim Palmer (wife Shelly) and Scott Palmer (wife Kim), both of Truro; two daughters, Deborah Blevins (husband Richard) of Kearney, Mo., and Karen Caley (husband Patrick) of Bellevue, Neb.; three brothers, Basil Duane Dick (wife Florence) of Lodi, Calif., Gale Palmer (wife Dixie) of Weatherford, Okla., and Glen Palmer (wife Marilyn) of Omaha, Neb.; and eight grandchildren.
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Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published, the gravesite is located in the Young Cemetery.

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