Visitation:
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday January 31, 2020 at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski
Service:
11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Mount Pulaski
Obituary
Dorothy Emmaline (Holmes) Palmer,
formerly of Mount Pulaski passed away at 11:57 a.m.
on January 27, 2020 at St. Louis University Hospital
in St. Louis, MO.
Dorothy was born on May 2, 1938 in Mount Pulaski
daughter of Benjamin and Selma (Grathwohl) Holmes.
She married Richard Dean Palmer on May 25, 1957. He
survives her.
Also surviving are her children: Jody (Vidal)
Davila, Vicky (Michael) Vogt, and Eric ( Dhee-Ghee)
Palmer; her grandchildren: Rachel and Gabriel
Davila, and Hunter Palmer; along with many friends,
nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in
death by her parents, her siblings: Charles “Chick”
Holmes, Mary Holmes Thompson, Kenneth Holmes, and
Robert Holmes, one daughter: DeAnn Lynette, and one
grandchild: Sierra Davila.
Dorothy graduated from Mount Pulaski High School in
1956. Dorothy and Richard have lived in Illinois,
Oregon, Arizona, and most recently Missouri. She
enjoyed researching family genealogy and traveling
the world with Richard. Together they have visited
over 65 countries in their 62 years of marriage. |
Dorothy loved being a mother,
grandmother, and wife to her loving husband. She was
a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Wentzville,
MO.
She published the William Holmes and Mary Turner
family Chronicle (Seventh Edition) for the enjoyment
and legacy of the Turner-Holmes family.
Services for Dorothy will be 11:00 a.m. Friday
January 31, 2020 at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral
Home in Mount Pulaski with Rev. Jonathan Buescher
officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to
the service also at the funeral home. Burial at
Mount Pulaski Cemetery will follow the service.
Memorials may be made in Dorothy’s name to the Logan
County Historical Society, American Lung
Association, or Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.
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