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MILITARY: Lee was in the first world war. He was a drug clerk. He had a natural immunity to some of the diseases that were rampant during the war. He was 23 9/12 years of age at the time of his induction into the army. He was discharged 4 July 1919 which was the year that his second wife Edna Augusta Grosze was born. He served most of his military time in a hospital in France.
NOTE: He had 1 son Billy with his first wife Esther Gale Boyer. She had a son Virgil Walls from a previous marriage to Asa Walls. He had 2 sons Leroy and Dennis Palmer from his second marriage to Edna.
DEATH: He committed suicide in 1952.
BURIAL: Buried in Bayard Cemetery.
OCCUPATION: Worked for Munn Drug Company as a clerk. He owned and operated first, Palmer and Son Auto Livery and then Palmer and Son Taxi in Scottsbluff after his military service. He worked at the Gering and Bayard sugar factories. Was also a night watchman at the Bayard sugar factory.
SOURCE: Military Discharge, Death Certificate, Newspaper article from the Bayard Transcript, Marriage Certificate, Personal knowledge.
Social Security # 505-10-1865
MARRIAGE: Edna was married to Lee Palmer first. He died then she married Henry Kraus. They were divorced . She then married Reuben Bruning. They were divorced after about 1 year. She then remarried Henry Kraus. They were married about 1 or 2 months and there was a divorce. She then had a boy friend Ed Yocum. There was a child born to Edna in the interim between Lee Palmer's death and the time she married Hank. Leroy was in 7th grade at the time this baby was born. Edna had gone to Denver, Colorado to have this baby. It was either in the fall or early winter of 1956 when the baby was born. The father of this child was LaVerne Goranson. LaVerne Goranson was somehow connected to the Brennings. The child was a boy and was given up for adoption. It was a private adoption. The people were from Texas. Nothing more known about this child.
BURIAL: Edna was buried in the City Cemetery in Grand Island, Nebraska.
SOURCE: death certificate, marriage certificate, christening record,personal knowledge.