Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Palmer

August 18, 1952 - March 24, 2019

Kathleen Mary “Kathy” Palmer, of the Ivy Bend Community in Stover, went to be with the Lord, with a stopover at Rainbow Bridge on March 25, 2019. She was born on August 18, 1952, the daughter of the late Everett and Jean Branson. She was born in Missouri, but her mother was from England. At a young age, she took Kathy back to England on the Queen Mary, where she lived until she was a young adult. She then came back to the United States. Kathy got a job at a casino in Las Vegas where she met the love of her life, Dale Palmer. They were married June 6, 1986, at the Trees of Mystery in California. He preceded her in death in October of 2015. They had no children. She is survived by quite a few internet friends from her cocker spaniel email list and one friend of over twenty years from Pennsylvania, Lynn Pyle. Kathy bred and showed Cocker Spaniels and had many champions under the Playtime name. It was after her mother passed away that she turned the showing over to a handler. She loved every one of her "fur babies". As a 25th wedding anniversary gift, Dale bought her dream car, a 1979 Trans Am, Bandit Gold Edition. That first summer they took the car on the official Bandit run from Texarkana to Atlanta. She also enjoyed going to car shows with the car and just driving it around in the summer. The burn outs they do at the car shows inspired her to name one of her cockers: Playtime's Light-em-up Jack. She also liked doing things around the house outside and had several fairy/gnome gardens. Interment will be held in the Stover Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction and care of the Kidwell-Garber Funeral Home of Versailles.