Doris Palmer Slaughter

Doris Palmer Slaughter entered her heavenly home on October 14, 2024.  She was born in Stapleton, Georgia, on December 25, 1933, to Walton Harold Palmer and Mamie Hinton Palmer. Her family moved to the Birmingham, Alabama, area where she attended Shelby County High School and Birmingham Business College.  While at the business college she met the love of her life, Joseph Dwight Slaughter, on a blind date and married him four months later. 

Doris was preceded in death by her parents, Walton and Mamie Palmer, husband, Joseph Dwight Slaughter, Sr., son, Thomas Walton Slaughter, and brother, Thomas Allen Palmer.  She is survived by her son, Joseph Dwight Slaughter Jr. (Carece), daughter Linda Ellen Slaughter, sisters Hazel McIntyre and Nancy Tinny (Harold), brother, Tim Palmer (Linda), daughter-in-law, Ginny Slaughter Morris, grandchildren: Nathan Slaughter (Kate), Carissa Hill (Jason), Sarah Duguid (Matt), Jon Slaughter, Zack Wolfe, and six great-grandchildren.

Doris will be greatly missed by her immediate family, nieces and nephews and many whom she counted as family: Joel and Helen Jenkins, Mark Jenkins (Nicole), Sarah’s brothers and sisters, and many others.  

There will be a graveside service at Memorial Park Cemetery in Auburn, AL, on Saturday, December 7, 2024, at 11:00 am.    

In lieu of flowers, the family request that donations be made to Three Oaks Hospice in Richardson, TX.