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Hazel Lee Adcock was born 17 April, 1907 in Bernice, Union Parish, Louisiana and was the fifth of the seven surviving children of John Berry Adcock [1870-1937] and Loretta Jane Gray [1878-1937]. She learned piano and while in high school would play the piano at the local movie theater during the showing of the silent films, fitting the music to the happenings on the screen.
After graduation she married Harris S. Williams [1903-1968] on February 13, 1926 in her family home. They had two children, a girl born in November 1926 and a boy born in May 1930. She and Harris were divorced in March 1941 in El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas.
Later, in August that year, she was married in El Dorado to James Clyde Williamson [1902-1955] of Bristol, Washington County,Virginia and then moved with her two children to Bristol. During World War II, she taught school in Sullivan County, TN. Later she enrolled in a Licensed Practical Nurse's training program at Holston Valley Community Hospital in Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN and, after graduation as a LPN, continued to work there. Her second husband, James C. Williamson, died in December 1955 and a couple of years later she moved to Marin County, California where she continued her nursing career, licensed in California as an LVN.
By 1961 Hazel was living and working in San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge, where she met and married Paul Wayne Palmer in April 1961. During this time she was quite an active member of the Seventh-day Adventist church. She developed abdominal cancer and after more than five years treatment, died August 1969 at the age of sixty-two in a convalescent hospital in Bakersfield California, having been taken there by her son to be near him for care and daily visitation. She was returned to the San Francisco Bay area for burial in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, a San Francisco suburb awaiting the Resurrection.
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