Michele A. Palm

Michele A. Palm ObituaryMichele Palm passed away at the age of 60 on November 4, 2025 in Watertown, SD.
Funeral services will be 2:00pm, Monday, November 10, 2025 at First United Methodist Church in Watertown.
Visitation will be 2:00-4:00pm, Sunday, November 9, 2025 at Wight & Comes Funeral Chapel in Watertown.
Interment will be private at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers please designate memorials to the Beacon Center, 801 Jenson Ave SE / PO Box 781
Watertown, SD 57201 or go to their website www.beaconcentersd.com
Michele Ann Palm was born February 17, 1965 in Watertown, South Dakota to Dale and Donna (Pfeifle) McElhany. She grew up in Watertown, attended Mellette Elementary and graduated from Watertown High School. She also attended Northern State University and Central Wyoming College in Riverton, Wyoming.
Michele worked as a wedding and event planner; food service manager and was a youth church choir director. Her present job was a manager at Firehouse Subs in Watertown.
She enjoyed crafts, cooking, listening to music, following family sports and holiday decorating. Michele had a beautiful voice and loved to sing; she especially loved her children Olivia and Tom and her grandson, Declan.
Grateful for having shared in Michele's life are her parents, Dale and Donna McElhany of Watertown, SD; her children, Thomas Dale (Alex) McElhany of Littleton, CO and Olivia Darlene Palm of Watertown, SD; her beloved grandson, Declan McElhany; her siblings, Mike (Patty) McElhany of Chandler, AZ and Bill McElhany of Watertown, SD; her nieces and nephews, Mike & Patty's children, Kyle (Katie) with daughter, Noa, Katelyn (Adam) Squire with three sons, Ryan, Elliot and Jackson and Keith McElhany, Bill's children, Cole, Briana and Kennedy.
She is preceded in death by her infant son, Cary; her maternal grandparents, Willie & Olga Pfeifle and paternal grandparents, Paul & Ellen McElhany; and two cousins, Bob McElhany and Dan McElhany.
Wight & Comes Funeral Chapel serving the family - www.wightandcomes.com
Michele Palm passed away at the age of 60 on November 4, 2025 in Watertown, SD.
Funeral services will be 2:00pm, Monday, November 10, 2025 at First United Methodist Church in Watertown.
Visitation will be 2:00-4:00pm, Sunday, November 9, 2025 at Wight & Comes Funeral Chapel in Watertown.
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