Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free,
I'm following the path God laid for me.
I took his hand when I heard his call,
I turned my back and left it all.

Mrs. Cornelia Seward Palmer, age 80, of Norlina, North Carolina departed this life on Saturday, January 20, 2024, at her residence.

Funeral services will be held at 3:00pm on Saturday, January 27, 2024 at Coley Springs Missionary Baptist Church, 224 Parktown Road, Warrenton, NC. The Reverend Carson F. Jones, Jr. will officiate and Bishop Robert Terry, Jr will deliver the eulogy. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

She leaves to cherish her memory her children, Faydrea Palmer and James Otis Palmer; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; one sister, Margaret Hayes; and a host of sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

She may be viewed on Friday, January 26, 2024 from 1:00pm until 5:00pm in the chapel of Boyd & Royster Funeral Service in Warrenton.