Betty Jean "Jeannie" Palmer

Betty Jean "Jeannie" Palmer, 95 of Ashland, MO, formerly of Carson, IA, passed away Monday, April 8, 2024 at The Neighborhoods by Tiger Place in Columbia, MO. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 23, 2024 at the Carson United Methodist Church in Carson with Rev. Mark Johnson officiating. Visitation and fellowship with the family will be held following. Burial will be in the Wheeler Grove Cemetery. Loess Hills Funeral Home in Carson is caring for Jeannie and her family.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials are to the Carson United Methodist Church or Carson Volunteer Fire Department.

OBITUARY
Betty Jean “Jeannie” Palmer, 95, of Ashland, Missouri, formerly of Carson, Iowa, passed away on Monday, April 8, 2024, at The Neighborhoods by Tiger Place, in Columbia, MO. Jeannie is preceded in death by her husband, Gayle Wayne Palmer, her son, Verle DeWayne Palmer (Ben), as well as her parents and grandparents and several brothers and sisters. Betty Jean was the oldest of eleven siblings.
Jeannie was born on December 12, 1928, in Kingsley, IA the daughter of Ruth Collins and Ray Richardson. Betty Jean was cared for in her formative years by her maternal grandparents, Ambery and Bertha Collins, and her parents, (Ruth Collins Holmes and Francis Holmes). On May 23, 1948, she married Gayle Palmer in Creston, IA.
Jeannie graduated from Macedonia High School in 1946 in Macedonia, IA. She appeared in numerous school plays, lettered in basketball, excelled scholastically and graduated Salutatorian of her class. She attended church at Macedonia Methodist Church where she and her grandparents were custodians. Upon graduation from high school Jeannie secured employment in an office in Council Bluffs, IA and quickly learned she wasn’t interested in office work. She returned to her hometown to serve others in the restaurant in downtown Carson. Gayle and Jeannie were blessed with two children and moved to Emden, MO in 1960. Their children attended a one-room country school. Gayle raised pigs, cows, and chickens on their 40-acre farm while operating his own blacksmithing business. Jeannie worked during this time as an apprentice in an upholstering refinishing shop in Monroe City, MO. Jeannie was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, the BW Club, and the Methodist Church.
In 1968, Gayle and Jeannie moved to Burlington, Iowa. During those years Jeannie drove a forklift in an Army Ammunition plant and performed mass production for General Electric Corporation. When Gayle passed away in 1987, Jeannie “went solo,” moved back to Carson and made herself a home and a happy life. Jeannie enjoyed quilting, sewing, crafts, playing cards, spending time with her friends, and serving others. Her failing health took her to live with her daughter in Ashland, MO in 2018.
Jeannie will be sadly missed and forever remembered by her daughter, Leslie and her husband Richard Anderson of Ashland, MO; her sisters, Colleen and Jacquelin and a younger brother; three grandsons, Eric Michael, Gayle Gene, and Zachariah; three great grandchildren, Michael Wayne, Kaitlin Lynette, and Abbigail Lyn all of Burlington, IA.