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Etta Jane <I>Kempton</I> Palmer

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Etta Jane Kempton Palmer

Birth
Eden, Graham County, Arizona, USA
Death
2 Dec 1970 (aged 75)
Safford, Graham County, Arizona, USA
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Eden, Graham County, Arizona, USA Add to Map
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(From obituary)"Etta was the second of fourteen children born to Richard Hyrum Kempton and Nellie Francis Colvin. Most of her childhood days were lived in Eden, except for a short period when the family moved to Asherst. What schooling she had, she and her brothers and sisters traveled many miles each day by team and wagon. She married Levi L. Palmer on July 31, 1911, in Solomonville, which was then the county seat for Graham County. This being the flooding season, they had to swim their team and wagon across the Gila River and then they boarded the local train to go on to Solomonville for the ceremony. She served as cook for the college and high school cafeterias in Thatcher for twenty-six years, not retiring until she was seventy-one years old. She was an excellent cook and no child ever went away hungry.
She entered the hospital Tuesday afternoon and passed away from a heart attack on Wednesday, December 2, 1970."
(From obituary)"Etta was the second of fourteen children born to Richard Hyrum Kempton and Nellie Francis Colvin. Most of her childhood days were lived in Eden, except for a short period when the family moved to Asherst. What schooling she had, she and her brothers and sisters traveled many miles each day by team and wagon. She married Levi L. Palmer on July 31, 1911, in Solomonville, which was then the county seat for Graham County. This being the flooding season, they had to swim their team and wagon across the Gila River and then they boarded the local train to go on to Solomonville for the ceremony. She served as cook for the college and high school cafeterias in Thatcher for twenty-six years, not retiring until she was seventy-one years old. She was an excellent cook and no child ever went away hungry.
She entered the hospital Tuesday afternoon and passed away from a heart attack on Wednesday, December 2, 1970."

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