Obit for Lavene Palmore
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
Dated August, 2001
For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmon.htm 
1/26/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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Lavene Palmore, 58, of Hollis passed away Tuesday at Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church in Hollis with the Rev. James Densman, the 
Rev. Jim Westmoreland and Earl Seigrist officiating. 

Burial will follow at Fairmount Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Stewart Funeral Service. 

She was born July 29, 1943 in Gould to Carl Henry and Dorothy Marie Jaco Messenger. 

She graduated from Hollis High School. She married Larry Palmore in Hollis in 1962. 

She received a masters degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1985. 

She taught in the Hollis Elementary School until she retired in 1999. 

She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Hollis, Kappa Lambda, was named Harmon County Teach of 
the Year in 1998-1999 and was a member of the "Pride in Harmon County" Committee. 

She loved to cook for her family and friends, loved caring for her grandchildren, and loved helping others who 
were less fortunate than she. She lived her entire life in Harmon County. 

She is survived by her husband Larry of the home; two sons, Dee and daughter-in-law, Susan of Wichita Falls, 
Texas and Stan of Yukon, her step father, Bill Jeans of Ponca City, a brother, Robert Messenger and wife, 
Sharon of Hollis, sister Charlotte Needham and husband, Jerry of Arlington, Texas, a brother, Sam Messenger 
and wife, Judy of Hollis, brother, Don Jeans of Tonkawa, sister, Lois Ann Hunt of Omumeva, Iowa and two 
grandchildren, Collin and Katie Palmore of Wichita Falls. 

She was preceded in death by her father, Carl Messenger in 1963 and her mother Dorothy Messenger Jeans in 
1996.