June Brownlee Palmer

June Brownlee Palmer 90, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 4, 2026.

A graveside funeral service will be held at 11AM on Saturday, November 7, 2026, at Evergreen Memory Gardens with Pastor Heath Lloyd officiating.

June was born in Van Buren Arkansas to the late Paul Brownlee and Floy Suggs Brownlee. She graduated from Van Buren High School in Arkansas and went to work at 18 years old with Bell South Telephone Company. June met her husband, Russell Palmer through her brother-in-law at Fort Smith, Arkansas Air Force Base. She and her twin sister moved to North Carolina with their husbands, and she continued working with AT&T until her retirement after 30 years of service with the company. June was the oldest living member of Mizpah United Methodist at the time of her passing. She played the piano and was the choir director there for many years before her health began to fail. She loved to sew and took up quilting. Every family member has some of her work to remember her by.

Along with her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Russell Gwynn Palmer; twin sister, Jean B Hall and brother-in-law, E. Wayne Hall.

June is survived by her daughter, Jerri Manspile and husband, Thomas “Wayne”; granddaughter, Katie Roach and husband, Brandon; nephews, Mike Hall and wife, Susan, Tim Hall and wife, Susan as well as a large and loving group of extended family and friends.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in her honor to Mizpah Methodist Church at 420 Mizpah Church Road, Reidsville, NC 27320