Leonard Edward Palmer, son of the late Ellie Bedford Palmer and Minnie Arabella Palmer was born on October 14, 1922 in Braggadocio, Missouri and went to be with Jesus on August 26, 2017 at the age of 94.

He was a graduate of Bernie High School Class of 1941. Doc served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.  He met his wife Martha Mae Day on a 

Greyhound bus while traveling to college.  It was love at first sight that lasted 68 years of holy matrimony.  He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Veterinary Medicine in 1957.  He returned to his home town in Dexter, Missouri where he was a local veterinarian for 25 years. He was a member of the Dexter Masonic Lodge #532 where he had just received his 70-year pin.

He was known for always being a jokester or storyteller and known by the names of Doc and Sarg.  He enjoyed playing guitar, fishing, hunting and spending time with his family and friends.  He and his wife Mae enjoyed traveling with the Airstream Club as snowbirds. He attended First United Methodist Church in Dexter for many years. Doc Palmer became a member of the Second General Baptist now known as Risen Church in Dexter. 

Survivors include his three children, Linda and her husband Jerry Caudle of Dexter, Len and wife Marty Palmer of Crystal River, Florida and Pam and her husband Cary Ivins of Dexter, Missouri: by one sister, Sue Brillhart of Dexter: Two grandchildren Leonard Palmer III and Amanda Agnitsch; eight great grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren and many faithful friends and relatives.

Besides his parents he was preceded in death by his wife Mae Palmer, his sister Imogene Shields, by two grandsons John Jeffrey Cox and Barton Palmer Cox.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter from 5:00 until 8:00 P.M. Monday, August 28, 2017.  

Funeral services will be conducted on Tuesday August 29, 2017 at 11:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Rev. Steve Tippen officiating.  

Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery.