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The Downey Eagle
April 9, 1999 Volume 7 Number 7

Nick Palermo mourned at age of 93 in Downey
DOWNEY-Funeral services are today (Friday, April 9) at 10 a.m. at the Miller-Mies Mortuary Chapel 
for Nick Palermo, a well known business man in both Downey and South Gate. 
He was 93, the son of immigrants from Italy, and died April 2 in Specialty Hospital in La Mirada. As a 
small child, he liked to visit the coal mines where his father worked in Springfield, Illinois. When the 
family moved to Fresno in 1920, he became a shoeshine boy, and got up early to deliver newspapers 
as well. He loved to work. His formal education ended in the 4th grade. He started his own business 
in 1941. 
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy; his son, David (the manager of Nick's New & Used Merchandise 
on Imperial Highway in Downey, and Nick's Antiques in South Gate); his daughter, Rosalie Peter of 
Wrightwood; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 
The Rev. John Smyser will officiate. Burial will follow in Memory Garden Memorial Park in Brea. 
Arrangements are by the Miller-Mies Mortuary of Downey.