ALBANY -- Rhoda Delilah Palmer, 90, of Albany, died Friday April 14, 2000.
Born in Hubbard to Joel and Ida Troyer Fisher, she attended primary school in Whiskey Hill, high school in Hubbard and Oregon Normal School in Monmouth from 1929 to 1931, earning a teaching certificate.
She taught one year at Whiskey Hill before moving to Eastern Oregon where she lived on the Owyhee River and taught in a one-room schoolhouse for two years before moving to Harper, where she was a substitute teacher.
She attended Oregon College of Education in La Grande during the mid-1950s and received a degree. In 1955, she moved to Vale and, after raising her family, resumed teaching. She retired in 1971 and moved to Albany.
Her hobbies, included quilting, sewing and reading. She was an avid Trail Blazers fan and a member of the Corvallis First Christian Church. She also donated clothes to the Salvation Army and Fish of Albany, and made and donated quilts to the newborn unit at Albany General Hospital.
She married Kenneth Palmer June 5, 1933, in Hubbard, He died in 1970.
She is survived by her daughters, Judith Castleberry of Honolulu, Linda Stinson of Corvallis and Joanne Babcock of Albany; brother Robert Fisher of Canby; sisters Ruth Neuschwander of Hubbard , Josephine Hagan of Centralia, Wash., and Joanne Horstman of Yorba Linda, Calif.; seven grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; four step-great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
A celebration of her life was held April 19, 2000, in the First Christian Church. Contributions may be made to Fish of Albany or the church in care of Aasum Funeral Home, 805 S. Ellsworth St., Albany 97321.
Canby Herald, [Canby, OREGON], April 22, 2000, page 13
Born in Hubbard to Joel and Ida Troyer Fisher, she attended primary school in Whiskey Hill, high school in Hubbard and Oregon Normal School in Monmouth from 1929 to 1931, earning a teaching certificate.
She taught one year at Whiskey Hill before moving to Eastern Oregon where she lived on the Owyhee River and taught in a one-room schoolhouse for two years before moving to Harper, where she was a substitute teacher.
She attended Oregon College of Education in La Grande during the mid-1950s and received a degree. In 1955, she moved to Vale and, after raising her family, resumed teaching. She retired in 1971 and moved to Albany.
Her hobbies, included quilting, sewing and reading. She was an avid Trail Blazers fan and a member of the Corvallis First Christian Church. She also donated clothes to the Salvation Army and Fish of Albany, and made and donated quilts to the newborn unit at Albany General Hospital.
She married Kenneth Palmer June 5, 1933, in Hubbard, He died in 1970.
She is survived by her daughters, Judith Castleberry of Honolulu, Linda Stinson of Corvallis and Joanne Babcock of Albany; brother Robert Fisher of Canby; sisters Ruth Neuschwander of Hubbard , Josephine Hagan of Centralia, Wash., and Joanne Horstman of Yorba Linda, Calif.; seven grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; four step-great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
A celebration of her life was held April 19, 2000, in the First Christian Church. Contributions may be made to Fish of Albany or the church in care of Aasum Funeral Home, 805 S. Ellsworth St., Albany 97321.
Canby Herald, [Canby, OREGON], April 22, 2000, page 13
ALBANY -- Rhoda Delilah Palmer, 90, of Albany, died Friday April 14, 2000.
Born in Hubbard to Joel and Ida Troyer Fisher, she attended primary school in Whiskey Hill, high school in Hubbard and Oregon Normal School in Monmouth from 1929 to 1931, earning a teaching certificate.
She taught one year at Whiskey Hill before moving to Eastern Oregon where she lived on the Owyhee River and taught in a one-room schoolhouse for two years before moving to Harper, where she was a substitute teacher.
She attended Oregon College of Education in La Grande during the mid-1950s and received a degree. In 1955, she moved to Vale and, after raising her family, resumed teaching. She retired in 1971 and moved to Albany.
Her hobbies, included quilting, sewing and reading. She was an avid Trail Blazers fan and a member of the Corvallis First Christian Church. She also donated clothes to the Salvation Army and Fish of Albany, and made and donated quilts to the newborn unit at Albany General Hospital.
She married Kenneth Palmer June 5, 1933, in Hubbard, He died in 1970.
She is survived by her daughters, Judith Castleberry of Honolulu, Linda Stinson of Corvallis and Joanne Babcock of Albany; brother Robert Fisher of Canby; sisters Ruth Neuschwander of Hubbard , Josephine Hagan of Centralia, Wash., and Joanne Horstman of Yorba Linda, Calif.; seven grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; four step-great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
A celebration of her life was held April 19, 2000, in the First Christian Church. Contributions may be made to Fish of Albany or the church in care of Aasum Funeral Home, 805 S. Ellsworth St., Albany 97321.
Canby Herald, [Canby, OREGON], April 22, 2000, page 13
Born in Hubbard to Joel and Ida Troyer Fisher, she attended primary school in Whiskey Hill, high school in Hubbard and Oregon Normal School in Monmouth from 1929 to 1931, earning a teaching certificate.
She taught one year at Whiskey Hill before moving to Eastern Oregon where she lived on the Owyhee River and taught in a one-room schoolhouse for two years before moving to Harper, where she was a substitute teacher.
She attended Oregon College of Education in La Grande during the mid-1950s and received a degree. In 1955, she moved to Vale and, after raising her family, resumed teaching. She retired in 1971 and moved to Albany.
Her hobbies, included quilting, sewing and reading. She was an avid Trail Blazers fan and a member of the Corvallis First Christian Church. She also donated clothes to the Salvation Army and Fish of Albany, and made and donated quilts to the newborn unit at Albany General Hospital.
She married Kenneth Palmer June 5, 1933, in Hubbard, He died in 1970.
She is survived by her daughters, Judith Castleberry of Honolulu, Linda Stinson of Corvallis and Joanne Babcock of Albany; brother Robert Fisher of Canby; sisters Ruth Neuschwander of Hubbard , Josephine Hagan of Centralia, Wash., and Joanne Horstman of Yorba Linda, Calif.; seven grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; four step-great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
A celebration of her life was held April 19, 2000, in the First Christian Church. Contributions may be made to Fish of Albany or the church in care of Aasum Funeral Home, 805 S. Ellsworth St., Albany 97321.
Canby Herald, [Canby, OREGON], April 22, 2000, page 13
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