Betty Glenn Reeves Palmer
By: Terry McDaniel
Updated: January 21, 2013
Mrs. Betty Glenn Reeves Palmer of Jellico Community
passed away Friday, January 18, 2013 at her home. She was
86.
Funeral
services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 21, in Sorrells Funeral
Home with Rev. Tommy White and Rev. Wendell Holmes officiating. Burial will follow in Pilgrims' Rest (West)
Baptist Church Cemetery with Sorrells Funeral Home of Slocomb directing.
The family
will receive friends at the funeral home on Sunday from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00
p.m.
Mrs. Palmer
was born on May 20, 1926 in Houston County, AL to the late William Glenn and
Nellie Jane Patterson Reeves. She was a
member of Pilgrims' Rest Baptist Church.
She taught school until her retirement; she influenced the lives of many
students at Columbia, Midland City, Slocomb and Wallace College.
She was
preceded in death by her husband, Jesse J.
Palmer.
Survivors
include her son: Jesse G. (Bonnie)
Palmer of Birmingham; two daughters:
Patti P. (Ken) Spruell of Dothan; Betsy P. (Al) Collins of Fairhope, AL; eight
grandchildren: Glenn and Sean Sanders,
Peyton S. Pennington, Jessica C. Porterfield, Casey and Sarah Collins, Derek and
Jason Spruell; six great grandchildren:
Rabon and Ralls Pennington, Laurance and Lance Spruell, Nathan and London
Spruell; several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers
will be Al Collins, Ken Spruell, Glenn and Sean Sanders, Mike Pennington and
Clyde Ray Hollis.
