This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IeB.2ACI/81.2 Message Board Post: Manny Palmer's obituary appeared in the Tuesday 4 May 1982 edition of "The Beaufort Gazeete." Many of us who knew him were not aware that his name was David Palmer until the obituary appeared in the newspaper. The obituary indicates he passed away on Saturday so that would be 1 May 1982. The obituary is as follows[please excuse the typos, also, I had to do a double look at the years mentioned in the sentence about predictied presidential victors-those are the years shown in the article]: MANNY PALMER, RESTAURATEUR, DEAD AT 61 David M. Palmer, a well known restaurateur who often fed his customers food for thought is dead at 61, In a community that can claim no typical citizen, Mr. Palmer's egalatarian restaurant, The Yankee, has served lunch for two decades to a cross-section of Beaufort that is as great an attraction as the food. "Manny himself was a great attraction. He liked to philosophize and talk politics. He kept up with current events," said Sen. James Waddell, Jr., a close personal friend whose office is not far from The Yankee. Mr. Palmer died Saturday in Beaufort County Memorial Hospital. Services were at 2 P.M. today ar Beth Israel Cemetery. Instuctors at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort considered Mr. Palmer "well read," and a challenge to debate said Dean Darwin Bashaw. Mr. Palmer kept up with classes at USC-B and once designed a special sandwich for the visit of USC President James Holderman, Bashaw said. During The Yankee's lunch rush and from a bar stool within reach of the telephone, Mr. Palmer would discourse grandly on a variety of subjects, between orders to go. Insiders credited Mr. Palmer's shrewd business skills for The Yankee's reasonable prices. What The Yankee lacks in decor - missing floor tiles, rocky tables and an intriguingly cluttered bar - it makes up for in clientele. Mr. Palmer's customers occassionally provided a unique cross section of the Unitred States as well. Each presidential election year, he held "The Yankee Poll" - a pre-election straw ballot by his cutomers that proved uncannlly accurate in three of the past four elections. The poll not only predcited victories by Jimmy Carter in 1976 and by Richard Nixon in 1972 and 1978. - it missed the final margin by less than a a percentage point. The poll also predicted Roanld Reagan's landslide victory in 1980 - although Palmer commented, " this is a crazy election...I just don't think the poll will be accurate." Mr. Palmer himself, a World War II veteran of the U. S. Army Air Coprs and a native of Atlantic City, N.J. was anything but shy about his political opinions. "Manny was very frank about who he supported...I doubt there were many politicians who came into town and didn't visit there...simply because Manny talked to so many people," Sen. waddell said. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Pearl Palmer of Beaufort; two sons, William Palmer of Columbia and Robert Palmer of Tennessee; his mother Mrs. Ada Brooks Palmer of Columbia; a sister, Mrs. Ruth Ehrenberg of New Orleans, La. and two grandchildren. The family suggests that those who wish may make memorials to the American Cancer Society. Anderson Funeral Home was in charge. That is the end of the obitaury. Since 1982, Mrs. Pearl Palmer and Sen. James Waddell have passed away. Back then Beaufort Memorial was still one story, now its is multiple stories high. And sadly The Yankee was torn down and a Boys Club is now on the site. Maybe someday the people of the community will remember the importance of The Yankee and erect a historical marker near the site. It shouldn't be forgotten.