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- RICHARD PALMER SR. DIES
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - April 4, 1995
Richard H. Palmer Sr., 60, of 12126 state Route 193, died Sunday morning in the intensive care unit of Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown, after being stricken at his home Saturday night.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Carpenter-Stoodley Funeral Home, Belleville, with the Rev. Paul Kelly, pastor of St. Cecilia's Church, Adams, officiating. Burial will be in Ellisburg Cemetery.
Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to the Ellisburg First Responders or the Mannsville Volunteer Rescue Squad.
Surviving are his wife, Katherine Hudson Palmer; six sons, Richard Jr., Liverpool, Edmund and Craig, both of Adams Center, John, Mexico, Leonard, Rodman, and Tom, Seabrook, Texas; five daughters, Mrs. Warren (Deborah) Wheeler, Geneseo, Mrs. Stephen (Sandra) Umstead, Redwood, Mrs. Wayne (Rebecca) Sidmore, Belleville, Mary Jo Adydan, Pulaski, and Kati, at home; 25 grandchildren; his mother, Lorena Moore, Burlington, Vt.; a brother, Myron, Colchester, Vt., and several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.
Born Nov. 12, 1934, in the town of Ellisburg, a son of Myron and Lorena Nichols Palmer, he attended Adams High School and meat cutters school in Chicago, Ill.
Mr. Palmer owned and operated his own tractor-trailer from 1950 until the early 1980s, when he became a tractor-trailer driver for Dobbins Auto Parts, Adams.
He married Katherine M. Hudson on Oct. 3, 1975.
Mr. Palmer was a past member of the Adams Fire Department, where he was second assistant chief, and a member of the Ellisburg Fire Department. He was a Jefferson County fire investigator and a member of the International and New York State Fire Investigators' Association.
He also was a past member of the Northern Blue Jays Motorcycle Club and an active member of the Sons of the American Legion.
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1934 - 1995 (60 years)