{"id":1570,"date":"2016-11-06T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2016-11-06T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:25:06","slug":"ethel-ham-palmer-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2016\/11\/06\/ethel-ham-palmer-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethel Ham Palmer &#8217;33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2016\/11\/Palmer-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1573 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2016\/11\/Palmer-1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"palmer\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2016\/11\/Palmer-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2016\/11\/Palmer-1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2016\/11\/Palmer-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2016\/11\/Palmer-1-193x250.jpg 193w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2016\/11\/Palmer-1.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Ethel Ham &#8220;Peggy&#8221; Palmer died peacefully at home on September 21, 2016 at the age of 100. Born to Charles and Ethel Ham in Flatbush, Brooklyn, she had two brothers, Charles and Ralph, who both predeceased her. Her husband, Dwight O. Palmer, Jr., predeceased her in 1987. She is survived by her nieces, Susan and Carolyn. Peggy graduated from Jamaica High School in 1933. A 1937 graduate of Smith College with a degree in Sociology, Peggy then attended the Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School. As a legal secretary at Western Union, she met her late husband, a public relations executive, and married in 1951. They first resided in Ridgewood, NJ, and then moved to Wyckoff, NJ, in 1954. Peggy was a member of the West Side Presbyterian Church, the Wyckoff Women&#8217;s Club, the Valley Hospital Auxiliary and volunteered for The Seeing Eye, training eight puppies. Peggy loved playing bridge with her friends and UpWords with her nieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethel Ham &#8220;Peggy&#8221; Palmer died peacefully at home on September 21, 2016 at the age of 100. Born to Charles and Ethel Ham in Flatbush, Brooklyn, she had two brothers, Charles and Ralph, who both predeceased her. Her husband, Dwight O. Palmer, Jr., predeceased her in 1987. She is survived by her nieces, Susan and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2016\/11\/06\/ethel-ham-palmer-33\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ethel Ham Palmer &#8217;33<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77,465,72],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1930s","tag-class-of-1933","tag-ethel-ham-palmer","tag-northampton-school-for-girls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}