Services for Rev. Lonnie Palmer, Jr., 83, of Allen, are 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at Bethel Free Will Baptist Church, Allen, Rev. Lonnie DaVoult will officiate. Burial will follow at Oaklawn Cemetery, at Batesville, Arkansas. Batesville services are 10:00 a.m. Friday at Qualls Funeral Home, Batesville.
Mr. Palmer died Sunday, August 23, 2015 in Ada. He was born March 9, 1932 in Pfieffer, Arkansas to Lonnie and Minnie Williams Palmer. He came to the Allen area in around 2010.
He married Lillian Bernice Crow on September 12, 1951. She preceded him in death in 2012. He received his degree from Free Will Bible College in Nashville, Tennessee. Rev. Palmer served as a Free Will Baptist Missionary to the Koulango, of Ivory Coast, Africa for 43 years. He formed the association of Free Will Baptist Churches of Ivory Coast, translated The Old Testament into the Koulango language, and founded the Free Will Baptist Bible Institute of Ivory Coast.
Survivors include two sons, Steve Palmer of Greenwood, Indiana and Stanley Palmer of Little Rock, Arkansas; two daughters, Kathy Pittman of Norman, Oklahoma and Marion Patterson of Lubbock, Texas; nine grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; three great great-grandchildren and one sister, Juanita Fulbright of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Bearers will be grandsons.
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