Everett Palmer

August 13, 1922 - August 12, 2017

Everett Clark Palmer lost his valiantly fought battle with cancer and went home to be with the Lord on August 12, 2017. Everett was born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island on August 13, 1922. His parents, Jane and Peter P. Palmer, welcomed him as the second of six children. Along with his siblings - Mary, Rolf, Ethel, Ruby, and Caroline - he grew up on the family farm in Hope Valley, Rhode Island surrounded by a large extended family of cousins, grandparents and great-grandparents. He enjoyed a youth filled with driving horses, mowing hay, hunting and fishing. Shortly after the onset of World War II, Everett was drafted and was stationed at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where he met a “pretty girl” serving as part of the Women’s Auxiliary Corps to date; three short months later, Everett and Mary were united in marriage on October 4, 1943. He was later deployed to Guam and was enroute to Japan when the war came to a close. Opportunity brought the couple to California in 1956, and they settled in Norwalk. Everett became an active leader in his community. His involvement in the Boy Scouts of America, Job’s Daughters, Golden Trowel Masonic Lodge, and the First Baptist Church of Norwalk leaves a lasting legacy. Everett’s career spanned many fields in which he worked and built things with his hands; he retired from his position at Los Angeles International Airport in 1987. He continued working for neighbors and friends in need of bathroom or kitchen remodeling; really, anything which needed to be be fixed, he fixed it. Everett was a talented woodworker; many friends and family were gifted with beautiful objects crafted by his hands. Everett was an exceptional man - a friend and mentor to all who knew him; the twinkle in his eye and the sound of his rolling laugh will be deeply missed by his family and friends. His 69 year marriage to Mary was filled with devotion and love; all who witnessed them together marveled at his tenderness for her in every situation and at every moment. His steadfast love reminds us all to spend our lives loving deeply and finding humor even in the darkest of times. Everett’s children Michael Palmer, Dennis Palmer, and Lori (Palmer) Franzen will keenly miss their father. Everett was preceded in death by his wife, Mary, in 2013, his daughter, Beverly (Palmer) Uston 2012, and his son, Timothy Palmer, in 2000.