GHENT, NY - Palmer Jerome Westover, 95, passed away at Pine Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on 2 July 2019. Born in Chatham, he was the son of Marion Palmer Loomis and George Jerome Westover. Palmer, through the years, had his own plumbing and heating business, worked for GLF (now Agway), drove a school bus for Chatham Central School District, worked at Chatham Bowl maintaining the machines and retired from Sonoco, formerly Crellin Plastics, in 1984. For Palmer, a stranger was just someone he hadn't visited with yet. He always had a story to tell about plowing, haying, hitching horses, milking cows, tractor pulls, one-room schoolhouses, the automobiles he owned starting in the late 1930s, tales of Austerlitz and Spencertown, working in Hartford, CT during WWII, attending the World's Fair in 1939, camping the Adirondacks and Eastern Canada with his children, and the places he had lived. His wide variety of residences include a camp in Maine, Calabash, North Carolina and Albuquerque, New Mexico. His friends in each of these areas know all about his experiences in the other places he'd lived. Palmer was predeceased by his parents, his wife Florence "Flossie" Smith Westover, his sister Lois Ackerman, a son Michael P. Westover, a daughter-in-law Mary MacPherson Westover and a son-in-law Richard Tokarski. His wife Flossie called him "Grampy", but that's another story. Surviving him are his sons Gary (Patricia), Jeffry (Gennifer), daughter Jeanne, daughter-in-law Cynthia Tunis, his beloved grandchildren Melissa Crysler (Keith), Greg, Daniel and Misha Westover and several nieces, nephews and cousins. A visitation will be held at the French, Gifford, Preiter and Blasl Funeral Home, 25 Railroad Avenue, Chatham, NY on Saturday, 20 July from 10:00 to 12:00, followed by a graveside service at the Chatham Rural Cemetery. After the service, friends and family are invited back to the Chatham firehouse. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes can be made to Chatham Fire Department, 2 Hoffman Ave, Chatham, NY 12037 or Austerlitz Historical Society, 11550 Route, Austerlitz, NY 11550 NY-22 12017. Condolences may be conveyed at frenchblasl.com.