Obit of Margaret L. Palmer-White (p456) - Oklahoma County OK

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Amarillo Globe News 24 Dec 1996

Margaret L. Palmer-White

OKLAHOMA CITY - Margaret L. Palmer-White, 102, died Sunday, Dec. 22, 1996.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Turpin United Methodist Church at 
Turpin with the Rev. Bill Smith and the Rev. Fred Palmer officiating. 
Burial will be in Kismet Cemetery at Kismet, Kan.

Mrs. Palmer-White was born in Barber County, Kan. She married Elmore H. 
Palmer in 1912 at Meade, Kan. He died in 1938. She then married LeRoy 
White. He died in 1977.

She moved to Seward County in 1903 and later moved to Liberal in 1929. She 
attended Liberal High School and worked at the Annex Cafe, the government 
office for the Blue Bonnet Courts, the Red Cross and the Medical Arts. She 
was a member of Western Avenue Church of Christ, the Rebekah Lodge and the 
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.

When Mrs. Palmer-White became a centenarian she appeared on the Phil 
Donahue Shoe and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno featuring her athletic 
accomplishments as being the oldest shot-put person. She also was a guest 
of honor at the Susan B. Anthony Women's Suffrage Celebration at Dallas in 
1994. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Centenarian Club in 1994.

Survivors include three sons, Donald Palmer of Topeka, Kan., Earl Dean 
Palmer of Oklahoma City and Wendell Palmer of Pampa, Texas; five 
daughters, Clara Griggs of Duncan, Eunice Pool of Amarillo, Margaret 
Parmelee of Turpin, Edna Olinger of Hugoton, Kan., and Florence Herring of 
Waskom, Texas; 25 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and six great-
great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to a favorite church or the Turpin United 
Methodist Church Building Fund, Box 68, Turpin, Okla. 74950.
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