Visitation will be held from 1:00pm until 3:00pm, Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Funeral services will follow at 3:00pm in the funeral home chapel with interment in Floral Hills Memory Gardens.
Carolyn was born November 25, 1944, in Jones County, Mississippi.
Carolyn was a faithful member of Eastside Baptist Church in Pearl where she loved her church family, especially her Sunday school class. Carolyn’s family was first in everything that she did and she was a loyal and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her favorite times were spent with her family. In her free time she enjoyed tending to her yard and garden and fishing.
Carolyn was preceded in death by her husband, J.C. Palmer; father, Lanoel Messemore; and mother, Annie Lou Holifield Messemore Crawford.
Survivors include son, Bubba Palmer and wife Cindy; daughters, Sissy Matheny and husband Brian, and Becky Powell and husband Doug; grandchildren, Megan Dallas and husband David, Christy Shannon and husband Dusty, Laura Langford and husband Adam, and Michael Crimm; and great-grandchildren, Jacob Langford, Jaycee Langford, Olivia Langford, Bella Vance Dallas, Lily Ruffin Dallas, Anniston Flanagan, Wyatt Shannon, and Dannyn Shannon.