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- from "The Glens Falls Post-Star", 2 Aug 1956 (newspapers.com)
Those who were privileged to know intimately Estelle C. Palmer, whose death occurred this week, will long cherish the memory of an exceptionally fine woman, who loved Glens Falls and served on many committees which made valuable contributions to the welfare of the city. Older residents of Glens Falls what recall Miss Palmer as one who served during World War I for many months at the headquarters of the Red Cross. She was patriotic, civic minded, zealous and unselfish in her devotion to all worthwhile projects, with which she became associated. From that active life and prominence in this community over a long period of time, ill health in recent years made it necessary for her to lead an entirely different type of Life. Practically ill all of her time in recent years, with the exception of several confinements in Glens Falls hospital, has been spent in her home. Each day she read newspapers and publications that kept her well informed and enabled her to discuss current events with her most intimate friends, some of whom she called frequently for enjoyable telephone visits. When she informed her friends, from time to time, but she was to be confined for several weeks and Glens Falls hospital, she always did so in a cheerful manner, assuring her friends not to be concerned about her, for the hospital visit was to be simply for a checkup and rest. When her friends visited her in the hospital she appreciated the visits, but her friends left the hospital inspired by her cheeriness and bravery, despite the serious illness which afflicted her. Recently she called a friend on the telephone and said she had not been feeling well, but was perfectly resigned to her illness and "ready and anxious for the long sleep, whenever it arrived." The plans, which she ordered to be carried out after her death, were again typical of her kindness thoughtfulness for friends and her unselfishness. Miss Palmer said she did not want friends in distant cities, or even in this area, "bothered" by feeling that they must take time to come to her funeral. Her instructions were to have her eyes removed after death and delivered to an eye-bank. Her remains were then to be buried immediately, with the simplest kind of a burial ceremony. It was evident to her close friends that she wanted the most inexpensive funeral possible so that there would be much more in her estate to contribute to several local institutions, which she held in high regard throughout her life and wanted to remember as generously as possible in her will. Miss Palmer was best known to her intimate friends, as well as a wide circle of acquaintances, as "Daisy" Palmer. Her friendship, her kind and friendly manner and her constant desire to be helpful to others, will make her memory a cherished one by all who knew her.
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1881 - 1956 (75 years)
Marvin C. Palmer, b. 1845, Moreau, Saratoga, NY