Name: Maxine Leota COFFEY

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Birth: 16 Dec 1928 Farmington, Iowa

Death: 5 Nov 1997 Home, Garden Grove, Iowa

Burial: 8 Nov 1997 Garden Grove Cemetery

Occupation: Sewing

Education: High School

Religion: Methodist

Father: Leo Newton COFFEY (1901-1998)

Mother: Elsie Maureen WALKER (1903-1983)

Misc. Notes

For details on Maxine’s childhood, see report for her father, Leo Newton COFFEY.

MAXINE, IN 1929 THE COFFEY SISTERS, 1935 (MAXINE LEFT)

<<< HIGH SCHOOL PICTURE

(Notes, By Maxine Palmer)

"After graduating from high school in 1946 I went to Des Moines and worked for a finance company for two years as a clerk-typist. I met Bob in Garden Grove after he was discharged from the Army after three years service. We dated for a year and a half and were married in Des Moines, March 4, 1948.

We began our married life on a farm south of Garden Grove. We lived on a mud road - with no electricity or running water. We milked cows and raised chickens and Bob farmed and went to GI school two nights a week.

Ronald was born March 8, 1949 and when he was two we decided we wanted to try something different, so we sold everything we couldn't pack in a car and headed for California in March of 1959. Bob's folks decided to go too, so they got a small trailer house and off we all went. It took eight days to get to Los Angeles. What a trip following a trailer all the way!

THE PALMERS, 1959

We spent five years in Southern California. Bob worked for an air conditioner company and I worked for Coca-Cola Bottling Company as a secretary. Larry was born Sept. 22, 1955. We then decided that a farm in Iowa was the best place to raise two boys. We again milked cows and raised chickens and Bob farmed. I dressed lots of chickens for other people to make extra money. One smmer I dressed over 500. We were blessed with Sheryl on Sept. 11, 1957 and our family was complete. We rented several different farms until we were able to buy our own farm in 1970. When our children were living at home there were always lots of cats, a dog, a pony and sometimes pet raccoons. The boys enjoyed hunting and fishing and still do when they come home.

I have been employed at O'Bryan Brothers in Leon for the past 18 years, sewing lingerie and sleepwear.

(Maxine retired in 1991. She and Bob lived in retirement in Garden Grove. During much of this time she helped our dad -- first in his own home, and then when he moved to the nursing home in Leon in 1995. Although a non-smoker, she developed lung cancer in 1997.)

1997: IRENE, IMOGENE, FRED AND MAXINE WITH DAD

Funeral service card, November 8, 1997:

Maxine Leota Palmer, daughter of Leo Newton and Elsie Maureen (Walker) Coffey, was born on December 16, 1928 at Farmington, Iowa. She died at her home in Garden Grove, Iowa on Wednesday, November 5, 1997 at the age of 68 years.

On March 14, 1948 she married Robert Lucas Palmer. Three children were blessed to this union; Ronald Eugene, Larry Lee, and Sheryl Ann.

Maxine was a member of the Humeston Christian United Methodist Church and was very active in any way.

She retired from O'Bryan Brothers in Leon, Iowa after 25 years. In her spare time, Maxine loved to crochet and do needlework. She enjoyed taking bus trips with the bank.

Preceding her in death was her mother in 1983.

She leaves to mourn her husband of 49 years, Bob Palmer of Garden Grove; children: Robert Palmer and wife Lyndy of Charleston, South Carolina; Larry Palmer and wife Cathy of Urbandale, Iowa; and Sheryl Anderson of West Des Moines, Iowa; six grandchildren; father Leo Coffey of Leon, Iowa; two sisters: Irene McCarl and husband Clifford of Marion, Iowa; and Imogene Brown and husband Paul of Columbai Station, Ohio; brother Fred Coffey and wife Carol of Houston, Texas; and other relatives and many friends.

Spouses

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1: Robert PALMER

Birth: 25 Jun 1922

Occupation: Farming (now Retired)

Marriage: 19 Mar 1948 Des Moines, Iowa

Death: 21 Jul 2010

DESCENDENTS:

Robert PALMER (25 Jun 1922 - ) & Maxine Leota COFFEY (16 Dec 1928 - 5 Nov 1997)

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