Palmer, Danny and Jackie

Lea County Families and History, Then and Now, Vol II, 1984

 Palmer, Danny and Jackie

submitted by: Jackie Palmer

Danny Marshall Palmer and Jacqueline Ann "Jackie: Swope married August 19, 1972 at Cimmaron, New Mexico. Danny was born March 6, 1952 at Merkel, Texas, to Owen and Edward "Eddie" and Olga Faye (Gamel) Palmer. Danny has one sister and one brother: Brenda June Palmer Winn, born June 15, 1953 and Freddy Carl born November 27, 1954.

Jackie was born July 28, 1953 at Cimmaron, to Jack and Levine "Sweed" (Rhoten) Swope.

Jack Warner Swope was born November 20, 1923 at Raton, New Mexico to Earl Warner and Mary Elizabeth "Bo" (Young) Swope. Earl and Jack Swope have been School Bus Contractors at Cimmarion, Raton, and Eagle Nest for about fifty years. Earl "Poppa" is in the Nursing Home of the Colfax General Hospital at Springer, New Mexico.

LaVerne Dal "Sweed" was born June 10, 1924 at Denver, Colorado to Ben and Mary Dal (Shelton) Rhoten. Ben was born in 1898 and died March 2, 1958. Mary Dal was born in 1901, died June 12, 1934. She was the daughter of Plenons and Fanny Shelton. LaVerne died December 13, 1980. Jack and Sweed have five children: 1. Kathleen Dal Swope Potter, born January 13, 1945 at Raton; 2. Eileen Marie Swope Aquire, born September 29, 1947 at Raton; 3. Mary Loreen Swope Higgins, born June 7, 1949 at Raton; 4. Jackie; 5. Benjamin Warner Swope, born August 2, 1962 at Springer.

Danny and Jackie have three children: 1. Hank Marshall, born August 18, 1974, at Hobbs- Hank was Eddie and Faye's' first grandchild; 2. Kenny Edward, born September 2, 1976 at Hobbs; and Christy Ann, born July 26, 1979 at Odessa, Texas.