Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Kenneth Palmer, Jr.
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   PALMER
   TULSA - Kenneth PALMER, Jr., was born January 27, 1954, at Fort
   Crowder, MO. He died February 11, 1994, from gunshot wounds. No other
   details on his funeral or interment were available at press time. A
   memorial was planned at a later time.
   He was a 1972 graduate and all-state baseball player of Edison High
   School, a pitcher on the University of Oklahoma’s 1975 Big Eight
   Conference Baseball Championship team, and was drafted by the Oakland
   Athletics major league baseball team in 1978. He was an employee of
   the Tulsa County court clerk’s office and had been an employed as
   a Bingo employee with Creek Nation in Tulsa. He played four years in
   the minor leagues. He was the nephew of Muskogee District
   representative to Creek Nation, Helen CHUPCO. He was the grandson of
   the late Billy and Bessie PALMER.
   He is survived by his parents, Kenneth and Frances PALMER, Sr.; and
   his sisters, Tracey Lee PALMER of Norman, and Haley Jo PALMER of the
   home.