Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Hattie PALMER

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> February 2007

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Miss Hattie Palmer

Hattie Louise Palmer was born at Evansville, Wis., September 10, 1856. For
a few years she lived in Janesville, Wis., and then returned to Evansville,
where she was assistant postmistress for a number of years. She was also
engaged in the millinery and dressmaking business.

March 2, 1889, Miss Palmer and Miss Agnes Wheeler came to Geneva and bought
out a millinery business in which they have engaged ever since. Miss Palmer
was soon elected superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school, which
office she held for twenty-one consecutive years. After one year as
treasurer of the Sunday school she became teacher of the young woman's
class which place she held until death.

During the drouth years of the nineties she was at the head of the mercy
and help department of the Epworth league and managed the distribution of
clothing, sent from the east, and of food, to those who were in need.

Soon after coming to Geneva she was appointed a steward in the Methodist
church which office she still held at the time of her death.

She was treasurer of the Centenary fund and afterwards of the World
service. She was much interested in missionary work and she held offices in
both societies. For thirty-seven years of intense activity in Geneva she
scattered along life's pathway tokens of loving service and then passed on
to her reward Sunday morning, July 18, 1926.

The funeral took place from the family home at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 20,
and was conducted by her pastor, Rev. H. G. Langley of the Geneva Methodist
Episcopal church, assisted by Rev. David Tudor of the Geneva Congregational
church. Members of the Methodist choir furnished the music. The family
requested that no flowers be sent. The funeral was held at the home at the
request of the deceased. The company of friends that gathered to pay a last
earthly tribute testified to the love and respect in which Miss Palmer was
held by the people of the community. Interment was in the Geneva Cemetery.

Miss Palmer is survived by her sister, Mrs. Carrie Nelson of Geneva, and by
a niece, Florence, who made her home with her. No other relatives reside in
this vicinity.

July 29, 1926, p. 4, col. 4 & 5, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin