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DATE: FRIDAY, March 9, 1990                   TAG: 9003091718
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT-PALMER, J.

PALMER, JOHN T. PENHOOK - Mr. John Thomas Palmer, age 85, of Route 2, died Thursday, March 8, in the Rocky Mount Hospital. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Adkins Palmer. Surviving are one daughter and son-in-law, Flora and Jimmy Dorsett of Danville; one son and daughter-in-law, Nelson and June Palmer, Penhook; one sister, Mrs. Nettie Zeigler of Roanoke; seven grandchildren and six grandchildren-in-law, Vick and Kaye Dorsett, Tommy and Kaye Dorsett, Kaye Dorsett, Mike and Carolyn Palmer, Susan and Tim Altice, Don and Patty Palmer, Cindy and Jeff Holland; twelve great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Saturday in the Cool Springs Christian Church by the Rev. J. C. Keesee, the Rev. Arthur Matson and Elder O. K. Tench. Interment will follow in the family cemetery. Friends may call at Lynch Funeral Home, Rocky Mount, after 4:00 p.m. Friday where the family will be from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. and other times at the residence of Nelson Palmer.



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