Louise Palmer

Louise Lambley Palmer, age 86, of Tuscaloosa, died May 24, 2011, at Forest Manor Nursing Home. Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Tuscaloosa Memorial Park with Gene Dockery officiating and Heritage Chapel Funeral Home & Cremations, a Dignity Memorial Provider, directing. Visitation will be Friday from 10 to 10:45 a.m. at the funeral home.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Delbert and Marbie Lambley; and son, Kenneth Wayne Palmer.

Survivors include her husband, Shirley Eugene Palmer of Tuscaloosa; and her granddaughter, Ashley Wells Palmer of Englewood, N.J.

Born in Putnam, Texas, Louise worked as a secretary in San Angelo, Texas before being introduced to her future husband by Sybil and Boots Worsham during World War II. She relocated to Tuscaloosa following the war, successfully running Fletcher Supply Company and raising a family. Louise and Shirley took great pride in the home and life they built on their cattle farm outside of Tuscaloosa. She was active in ARSM-HACCA and Tuscaloosa County Cattlewomen's Association, but her greatest accomplishments were being a loving wife to Shirley, a doting mother to Ken, and a caring grandmother to Ashley.

Pallbearers will be John Belcher, Lacon Carver, Frank Burns, Tom Farmer, Alan Langford, and Beverly Leigh IV.

Honorary pallbearers are Joyce Farmer, Aileen Foster, Annie Pearl Gray, June Hamner, Barbera Langford, Lang and Maureen Ray, Bobbie Nell Burns, Buddy Sims, and the staff at LaRocca Nursing Home.