Reno, Nevada
Virginia S. PalmerVirginia Palmer was born January 21, 1914 the last of 9 children of Italian immigrants. She was raised in Eureka and was the first to go to school there as her siblings had all gone to a rural one room school. She graduated from White Pine High School in 1932 and was the first...
Read MoreMiss Palmer, and she was always Miss Palmer, was my teacher in 1954 during the year that my mother died. Years later, she was the teacher for my daughter. When I saw her at a PTA meeting, she said she remembered me well, and wasn't that the year my mother had died? She was the best teacher I had in my early years. One in a million.
Kerry Cooke
March 29, 2012 | Boise, ID
Miss Palmer was my 4th grade teacher in '65 and '66. I too remember her reading Charlotte's Web to us all those many years ago at Mt. Rose. Thoughts and prayers.
Bert Jenkins
March 28, 2012 | Reno, NV
Irene,
I'm so sorry for your loss. I remember my Grandmother, Myrtle Iler say nothing but wonderful things about Ms. Palmer and I will never forget shaking hands with her as I received my high school diploma.
Lynne Burke (Iler)
March 28, 2012 | Verdi, NV
I was first grade student of Mrs. Palmer in 1971. I count myself 1 in many who was fortunate enough to have her as my teacher. Mrs Palmer was indeed a Reno Treasure.
Pat Tuttle
March 27, 2012 | Reno
"She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."
- E.B. White, Charlotte's Web, Ch. 22
The above quote from Charlotte's Web is a partially apt description for Miss Palmer herself. She was my fourth grade teacher, my favorite among all of my teachers, who read that book out loud to us, encouraged my painting a lamb on a Christmas mural that stretched across the back classroom wall, and oversaw...
Melladee Makelacy
March 27, 2012 | Silverton, OR
I am deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Miss Palmer. Virginia was one of the finest school board members I had the pleasure of serving with during my terms of office. She set a high standard of ethical conduct, decision making and service for all of us. Her legacy will indeed live on in the many students she taught, teachers she mentored and some school administrators whose "feet were held to the fire" of accountability. I also remember that Miss Palmer never voted to increase...
March 27, 2012
A Reno legend, no other word for her - well, maybe "a treasure." I interviewed her at Irene's house for our Reno High 1959 reunion yearbook; she took stern note of my punctuality, and insisted I take her photo from her "better" side, as all fine ladies do. What a lady... She'll be fondly missed by thousands of local "kids"
Karl Breckenridge
March 26, 2012 | Reno, NV
She was a wonderful and caring teacher. She was so kind to me in the First grade. We were so fortunate to have her in our community. Patrice Said
March 26, 2012
We send our deepest sympathy to Irene and family on the passing of Virginia Palmer. She was a very dear lady.
Joanne & Rowland Oakes
March 25, 2012 | York Harbor, ME