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1929-10-13 Nevada State Journal
Mrs. Mary Palmer dies in California
Word of the death of Mrs. Mary E. Palmer, widow of the late W.H. Palmer and a former resident of Reno, where she resided for many years, was received yesterday from Los Angeles. She was 92 years of age, and is survived by three daughters and a son, Mrs. Mae E. Tilay of Yerington, Mrs. Grace E. Rasmussen of Burbank Cal.; Mrs. Rena E. Simmons of Los Angeles and W. H. Palmer of Los Angeles.

[Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]

The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois

January 11, 1983 - Tuesday

LILLIAN HIXSON PHILLIPS

Lillian Hixon Phillips, 88, died at her home in Huntington Park, Calif., following a long illness.

Born in Clinton, Iowa, on Oct. 25, 1893, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hixon, she moved to Rock Falls at the age of two. She was the widow of the late Glen A. Phillips, also of Rock Falls.

Survivors include two daughters, Carol Sechrist, Huntington Park, Calif., and Mildred Budzak, Upland, Calif.; two grandchildren; and one great grandson.

She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Ervin, Herbert and Lawrence. Submitted by Melva Taylor

Died. Gene Stratton Porter, 56, novelist and lecturer, author of Freckles, A Girl of the Limberlost, Michael O'Halloran; in Los Angeles, from injuries received when her motor collided with a street car. [Time Magazine, Monday, Dec. 15, 1924, sub. by K. Torp]

Conduct Rites For Publisher, Judge Palmer
    Private funeral services for Judge Harlan G. Palmer, owner and publisher of the Hollywood Citizen-News for 45 years, were held yesterday at 11 a.m. in Hollywood Cemetery Chapel.
    Judge Palmer, 71, succumbed to extended illness Wednesday night in Good Samaritan hospital.
    The Rev. Withmore E. Beardsley of Hollywood Congregational Church officiated at the service. Committal followed in Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery.
    The family had requested that in lieu of flowers, contributions be sent to Hollywood YMCA.
Came West in 1911
    The judge was Hollywood's first practicing attorney, a former jurist, and as an editor and publisher he was vigorous campaigner against crime, gambling and alleged police pay-offs.
    Judge Palmer was born in LeRoy, Minn., on March 19, 1885. He attended the University of Minnesota for two years, then purchased the weekly paper in his home town and edited it for two years.
    For the next three years he took his invalid father's place at the head of a retail lumber and coal business, then came to California in 1911.
    He bought the Hollywood Citizen, then a weekly, in 1911. In the fall of that year he enrolled in the University of California Law School. He passed the State Bar examination in 1913 and set up practice in Hollywood.
Ran Close Race
    In 1915 he was appointed one of six judges of the Los Angeles Justice Court, now the Municipal Court system. He was elected to the same post in 1918 and resigned in 1921 when conversion of his paper to a daily required all his time.
    In later years he served as a member of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners and lated as special attorney for the City Council in an investigation of that board.
    In 1936 he ran against Dist. Atty. Buron L. Fitts for that post, and received 48 1/2% of the vote cast.
    For three years he served as president of the Southern California Editorial Association, forerunner of the California Newspaper Publishers' Association, and in recent years was a director of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
    In the latter post he represented newspapers in Mountain and Pacific time zones.
Many Pay Tribute
    Civic officials and leaders at all levels, business and social associates in Judge Palmer's many fields of endeavor, and "just plain friends" have made public and private expression of sorrow in the publisher's passing, and the City Council adjourned in tribute to his memory, with the County Board of Supervisors likewise paying tribute.
    Judge Palmer leaves his widow Ethelyn H., three sons, Harlan Jr., Byron and Ralph; a daughter Peggy Palmer, two brothers Judge William J. Palmer and Orland T. Palmer, a sister Zuma, and nine grandchildren.
    Utter McKiney-Strother Mortuary in Hollywood was in charge of arrangements.