Ramblin Rose

Business name:

Ramblin Rose

Address:

629 Market St

City:

Osage City

State:

Kansas

Zip Code:

66451

Phone number:

(785) 528-3337

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Constance “Connie” Mardee (Miller) Palmer

She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business from Emporia Teachers State College in 1959. She taught one year in Osage City Kansas High School before moving to Redondo Beach, California, with her husband, Kermit Palmer. She taught in the business department at Redondo Union High School for four years. She received her Master's of Science in Education from University of Southern California in 1964. Daughter Monette was born in 1964. The family moved to Ashland in 1965 where son Jeffrey was born in 1967. Connie and children moved to Corvallis after her divorce. She taught in the business education department at Oregon State University for 18 years. She especially enjoyed teaching and supervising her student teachers. Many of her student teachers ended up teaching and retiring from the surrounding area. When the business education department was phased out at OSU, she taught in the computer office lab at Linn-Benton Community College and also substituted in the local high schools, often for her former students. Teaching was her life career and she loved it! She met Les Duckett, the love of her life and he loved to tell people that he courted her for 23 years before she finally accepted his proposal. They were married July 21, 1991, at “high noon” on the Ponderosa Ranch at Lake Tahoe. Summers were spent camping, fishing, traveling, going to the coast and working among the hundreds of flowers and roses in their yard. They also spent lots of time obtaining and organizing Connie’s rather unusual hobby of collecting swizz... (Corvallis Gazette Times)