Wasco-Gilliam County OR Archives Obituaries.....Palmer, Elwood Edgar April 8, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, April 15, 2004
     Elwood Edgar Palmer, 89, a resident of Condon, died Thursday, April 8, 
2004 at a care facility in The Dalles.
     He was born Sept. 14, 1914, in Ewing, Neb., to Roland D. and Jessie 
(Fish) Palmer.
     He came to Washington as a young man and attended Auburn Academy in 
southeast King County. 
     He later graduated from the J.M. Perry Institute in Yakima where he had 
studied piano tuning and refinishing.
     He married Erma Canaday on Nov. 30, 1941, in Chehalis, Wash.
     He taught for several years at the Perry Institute before opening his own 
practice which he operated until the mid-1950s when he went into farming in 
the Yakima Valley. 
     He enjoyed painting and working with pastels and charcoal and was always 
happy to be involved in home mechanical projects.
     He was a member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
     Survivors include his wife Erma of Condon, his daughter and son-in-law, 
Margaret and Howard Gustafson of Pacific, Wash.; a brother, Cecil Palmer of 
Quesnel, B.C.; and two sisters, Margaret Clinton of Granger, Wash., and 
Laurene Shiedler of Ephrata, Wash. Also surviving are three grandchildren; 
Shawna Jones-Marsh, Kimberly Webber, and Kathleen Mattison, and five great-
grandchildren.
     Private interment was at the Chehalis Cemetery. Memorial services will be 
held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 15 at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in 
Grange.
     Memorial contributions may be made to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in 
Condon. Arrangements are by Columbia Cremation & Burial.


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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