After graduating from Connellsville High School in 1947, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked at the Census Bureau. One day, on a bus traveling between the two cities, Vonnie met the love of her life, Paul Palumbo. The two were married in 1949, a marriage that lasted 61 years until Paul’s death in 2011. Vonnie was a loving mother to their six children; Michel (Palumbo) Harger, Joseph, Sheree (Palumbo) Pounsberry, Paul, Jeffrey and Mark. The family grew to include 26 grandchildren and 41 great-grandchildren. After Vonnie’s children were grown, she worked for a number of years as a sales associate at Peebles Department Store and at Sears where many Bowie families got to know her smiling face. She was a charter member of Grace Lutheran Church in Bowie. Vonnie was loved and will be missed by all who knew her. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Pregnancy Clinic Ministry @ www.helphopeandhealing.org/give or 934 West St. Annapolis MD 21401 or to Grace Lutheran Church 2503 Belair Dr. Bowie MD 20715.
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