Bobbe Sue Palmer

Bobbe Sue was born in Denver, Colorado, on December 6, 1932 to Charles and Cora Fletcher. The family moved to Cherry Hills Village in 1939 where Bobbe attended the rural Cherry Hills school, going into Denver to attend South High School where she graduated in 1950. She attended Grinnell College in Iowa for two years and then graduated with a BA degree from the University of Denver in 1954. She taught English in junior high school in Norton, Kansas, from 1954 to 1955.

In 1955 she married the Reverend Robert J. Palmer and they moved to Saratoga, WY, where he served the first Saratoga Presbyterian Church. In the years following they lived in Riverton, WY, and Sheridan, WY where Robert served the local Presbyterian Churches.

In Riverton they adopted John Charles Palmer and Margaret Anne Palmer. When they moved to Sheridan they added Martin Joseph Palmer and Susan Elizabeth Palmer to the family.

During the years in Sheridan Bobbe Sue worked as a teachers’ aide in the local schools besides helping in the church in various capacities.

In 1982 the family moved to Juneau, AK, where Robert worked for the Presbytery of Alaska, as Anna Jackman Minister and general presbyter Bobbe Sue was his office manager and helped with various programs, especially with the Anna Jackman Ministry’s summer program of young volunteers who came to Alaska to do Vacation Bible schools in the outlying villages and lumber camps. The work there with the Native Alaskans in the villages was especially rewarding.

After Robert retired, he did interim ministry in churches in Billings, MT, Ellenburg, WA, and in Anchorage, Eagle River, and Skagway, AK. He and Bobbe Sue lived briefly in all those places.. In 2005 Bobbe and Robert moved to Estes Park, CO, to the good Samaritan Village where Bobbe continued to live after Robert died in 2009.

Bobbe enjoyed painting watercolors, and writing. She published a small book of short stories, entitled (Can this be home?) in 2016.

Bobbe Sue is survived by a sister, Codie Wilson, by three sons, John Charles Palmer of Pueblo Co, Martin Joseph Palmer of Juneau, AK , and Kimball Morgan of Corte Madera, CA, and by one daughter, Margaret Anne O’Dell of Casper, WY. Daughter Susan Elizabeth Palmer preceded her in death. And son David James Palmer Also surviving are eleven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Interment of cremains will be in the family plot in the Sheridan Memorial Cemetery in Sheridan, WY. on a future date.