1933
Elsie
2007
Elsie Marie Palmer
July 17, 1933 — October 15, 2007
Harlingen/Lake Jackson, TX:
Elsie Marie Palmer of Lake Jackson, Texas went home to be with Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on Monday October 15, 2007.
Elsie was born on July 17, 1933 in Santa Rosa, Texas to Ira Webster Boykin and Claudia Mae Neal. She attended Santa Rosa and Dishman Elementary Schools, and Harlingen High School before graduating from Valley Baptist School of Vocational Nursing in 1972. Elsie’s nursing career began at Valley Baptist Hospital where she worked for many years as an ostomy nurse and later as a neuro intensive care nurse. She retired in 2005 from Harlingen Nursing Center after devoting 32 years of her life’s ministry to the relief of pain and suffering. She was a Nurse’s nurse to all who had the pleasure of working with her and always cared for her patients as she herself would want to be cared for, unto the Lord. Elsie will be best remembered for her faith in God, her cheerful spirit and especially her sense of humor, but also for her kind and giving heart. She shared the joy of her salvation and never ceased to praise the Lord in all things.
Elsie was preceded in death by both parents, a son M.L. Palmer, III(Junior), and brothers J.W. Boykin of Harlingen and Roger Boykin of Wichita Falls.
She is survived by her children Donald & Leticia Palmer, and daughter Deborah Palmer of Lake Jackson , 3 grandchildren Kevin Greer of McAllen, Shawn Palmer of Keller and Sheigha Simmons of The Colony and 5 great grandchildren. She is also survived by brother Curtis & Maxine Boykin of Dallas, brother Don Boykin of Brownsville, brother James & Anne Boykin of Elmira, NY, sister Yvonne & Dalton Willis of Kingsville, sister Iva Jo & Sterling Gray of Harlingen, brother Dennis & Patsy Boykin of Combes, sisters-in law Maxine Boykin of Wichita Falls and Pauline Boykin of Harlingen and numerous nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers are nephews Mike Gray, Bo Boykin, Sterling Boykin, Lance Boykin, Shelton Stohler Jr. and Joshua Stohler. Honorary pallbearers are nephews Lee Young, Bill Groves, Glen Boykin and Bill Boykin.
Visitation will be on Thursday, October 18th from noon til 9pm with the family receiving friends from 7 p.m. to 9pm at Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home.
A celebration of Elsie’s life in Christ will be held at 2pm on Friday, October 19 at Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home with Pastor Mike Sullivan of Spirit of Praise Church officiating. Burial will follow at Monte Meta Cemetery in San Benito.
You are invited to sign the guestbook at www.buck-ashcraft.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home.
Elsie Marie Palmer of Lake Jackson, Texas went home to be with Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on Monday October 15, 2007.
Elsie was born on July 17, 1933 in Santa Rosa, Texas to Ira Webster Boykin and Claudia Mae Neal. She attended Santa Rosa and Dishman Elementary Schools, and Harlingen High School before graduating from Valley Baptist School of Vocational Nursing in 1972. Elsie’s nursing career began at Valley Baptist Hospital where she worked for many years as an ostomy nurse and later as a neuro intensive care nurse. She retired in 2005 from Harlingen Nursing Center after devoting 32 years of her life’s ministry to the relief of pain and suffering. She was a Nurse’s nurse to all who had the pleasure of working with her and always cared for her patients as she herself would want to be cared for, unto the Lord. Elsie will be best remembered for her faith in God, her cheerful spirit and especially her sense of humor, but also for her kind and giving heart. She shared the joy of her salvation and never ceased to praise the Lord in all things.
Elsie was preceded in death by both parents, a son M.L. Palmer, III(Junior), and brothers J.W. Boykin of Harlingen and Roger Boykin of Wichita Falls.
She is survived by her children Donald & Leticia Palmer, and daughter Deborah Palmer of Lake Jackson , 3 grandchildren Kevin Greer of McAllen, Shawn Palmer of Keller and Sheigha Simmons of The Colony and 5 great grandchildren. She is also survived by brother Curtis & Maxine Boykin of Dallas, brother Don Boykin of Brownsville, brother James & Anne Boykin of Elmira, NY, sister Yvonne & Dalton Willis of Kingsville, sister Iva Jo & Sterling Gray of Harlingen, brother Dennis & Patsy Boykin of Combes, sisters-in law Maxine Boykin of Wichita Falls and Pauline Boykin of Harlingen and numerous nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers are nephews Mike Gray, Bo Boykin, Sterling Boykin, Lance Boykin, Shelton Stohler Jr. and Joshua Stohler. Honorary pallbearers are nephews Lee Young, Bill Groves, Glen Boykin and Bill Boykin.
Visitation will be on Thursday, October 18th from noon til 9pm with the family receiving friends from 7 p.m. to 9pm at Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home.
A celebration of Elsie’s life in Christ will be held at 2pm on Friday, October 19 at Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home with Pastor Mike Sullivan of Spirit of Praise Church officiating. Burial will follow at Monte Meta Cemetery in San Benito.
You are invited to sign the guestbook at www.buck-ashcraft.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home.
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