NorthwestJuly 16, 2003

The memorial service for Hazel M. Palmer will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Christian Church in Garfield with the Rev. King Rockhill officiating. Cremation will take place prior to the service, and her ashes will be buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Farmington,

Wash.

Mrs. Palmer, 95, a resident of Garfield, died Saturday, July 12, 2003, at Latah Health Services in Moscow.

She was born Feb. 1, 1908, in Latah County to Fred and Louisa L. Lienhard Johnston. She attended her schooling at the Thompson Country School near Harvard and the Princeton grade school and graduated from Potlatch High School in 1927. She attended two years of college at the Lewiston Normal School and received her teaching certificate. She was a teacher at the Crane Creek Country School and later taught at the Evergreen Country School near Farmington. She taught school for four years.

She married Earl Palmer June 24, 1934, at Harvard. The couple made their home near Farmington, where they farmed and raised livestock. Mr. Palmer died in 1985.

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She moved to Garfield in 1985 and made her home there until she moved to Latah Health Services in Moscow in March.

She was a member of the Pythian Sisters, Hope Chapter, Order of Eastern Star at Oakesdale, Wash., and belonged to many women's social groups.

Survivors include one son, Larry Palmer and his wife, Jill, of Garfield; one daughter, Lois Hanson and her husband, Lavern, of Fairfield, Wash.; 10 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be given to the charity of the donor's choice.

Arrangements are under the direction of Kramer Funeral Home of Palouse.

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