Charles Wayne "Chuck" Palm

Charles Wayne "Chuck" Palm, 92, died peacefully at an assisted living home in Hemet, California, November 4. Chuck had moved to California from his winter residence in Arizona a year ago to be near his daughter's family.

Chuck was born October 8, 1931, to Charles and Hazel (Mercer) Palm.

He grew up on the family wheat farm in Banner County, Nebraska, which had been homesteaded in 1896 by his Swedish grandparents. The operation continues under family ownership to this day. He graduated from high school in Albin, Wyoming, in 1949, but not before missing six weeks of school his senior year due to...