Janice W. Palmer, 96, of Sabetha died on Thursday, May 15, 2014 at the Apostolic Christian Home in Sabetha.

Janice Winifred Kehler was born on August 17, 1917, at Moorcraft, WY to Leonard Howard and Theresa Viols Penn Kehler. When Janice was three the family moved back to Kansas, and lived for many years in Nemaha, Brown and Jackson counties. She attended schools in this area, and Wetmore and graduated from Fairview High School in 1936. She then taught school in both Nemaha and Jackson counties.

She married Ray Bunce Palmer on June 15, 1940 at McPherson, Kansas. They returned to the Sabetha area, where they resided for their retired married life. Bunce died in Jan 16, 1986.

Janice earned a LPN certificate from Kaw Valley Technical Institute in Topeka Kansas in 1968. She worked for numerous years at the Sabetha Community Hospital, and for several nursing homes in Sabetha and Hiawatha.

She and Bunce enjoyed traveling and did so extensively with trips to Europe, Canada, Pacific NW and many winters in Texas, Louisiana and Florida. Janice lived in Louisiana for several years. Hobbies include reading, movies of all kinds, and she was an avid cruciverbalist.

Besides her husband she was preceded in death by her parents; an infant sister, Virginia; son-in-law, Gene Sherrard; sisters-in-law, Ina Rokey, Betty Daley, Phyllis Fox and Caroline Walton; her four brothers; a granddaughter, Jolie Palmer; an infant grandson, Steven Roy Palmer; and five nieces and nephews.

The couple had three children, who survive, Steven (Susan) Bunce of Boulder, Colorado, Gwen Ellen Sherrard, Elm Grove, LA and Ann Louise (Jim) Stewart, Hollywood, FL; sisters, Laurel Hutchinson of Freeport, Ill, Rosemary Lentz of N. Little Rock, AR; sister-in-law, Shirley Kehler of Topeka, KS; five grandchildren, Toyna Sherrard of Elm Grove, LA, Richard Sherrard of Council Bluffs,IA, Mary Jan Harris of Palm City, FL, Jennifer Barberio of Clayton, CA and Tina Millhollin of Lakewood, CO; six step-grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren; 11 step great- grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; and three step-great-great grandchildren; and 18 nieces and nephews.

An announcement of a remembrance service will be forthcoming.