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Caroline Ann Palmer

1939 - 2025

BORN

1939

DIED

2025

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St. Mary Cemetery & Funeral Center

6509 Fruitridge Road

Sacramento, California

Caroline Palmer Obituary

Caroline Ann Palmer

August 24, 1939 - August 25, 2025

Sacramento, California - Caroline Palmer passed away on the 25th of August, 2025, the day after her 86th birthday.

Caroline grew up in Sacramento, attending school at Immaculate Conception and Bishop Armstrong. She married John Palmerini in 1960, and after her sons were finished with high school she began to work at CALPERS, retiring in 2001. She spent the rest of her days living in the Laguna area of Elk Grove, spending time with her Red Hat friends, visiting wineries and collecting Disney paraphernalia. She is survived by her stepfather Edward Suarez, sister Jacqueline Borah, brother Gene Enos, her sons John Robert Palmer and Thomas Edward Palmer, and her grandchildren Kylie Jean Palmer and Paige Virginia Xuanli Palmer.

She will be buried at St. Mary Cemetery and Funeral Center in Sacramento.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Sacramento Bee from Oct. 3 to Oct. 10, 2025.

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