Palmyra "Eunice" Kimbrough , 77, of Lathrop, California, transitioned peacefully to her heavenly home on December 2, 2021 at her daughter and son in law’s home. Palmyra “Eunice” Blackstone entered this world as the third child born on July 26, 1944 in Baltimore, Maryland to Rev. Richard Rolland Blackstone and Rev. Palmyra (Wilburn) Blackstone. 

Palmyra was affectionately known as “Eunice” or “Pam” and sometimes “Myra” by her closest family and friends. However, as a child she was affectionately called “Bay Bay” by her loving maternal grandparents the Rev. Theato Riley Wilburn Sr. and Maggie J. Jackson Wilburn. Her grandparents raised her and her two siblings on their farm in Severna Park, Maryland with their own children. Eunice would grow up on that farm house built by the ground up from Rev. Wilburn, a longshoreman and a preacher born and raised in Georgia.

On the farm, Eunice would learn farm chores such as milking a cow, feeding chickens and hogs, gathering eggs, churning butter, making ice cream, washing clothes with the clothes board and bucket, and preparing meals. Monday through Friday Eunice, her siblings, her aunts closest to her age, and friends would walk the long dirt road to school until school bus services were available.

In the 1970s Eunice worked in semiconductor plants during the early days of Silicon Valley in California. As a young adult life in the 1960s, Eunice worked as a maid at Rutgers University, cleaned homes, and babysat her younger siblings in New Jersey. In the 1970s she also worked as a yard duty attendant at schools in the Bay Area. Palmyra would become a respected and devoted CNA for the majority of her adult life with every patient cherishing her dedication and commitment to eldercare.

Palmyra was among the team of several workers who worked on semiconductors and soldering board frames during the early days of Silicon Valley. Three months after celebrating our nation’s July 4, 1976 Bicentennial with her family and our nation, Palmyra would survive a near fatal car accident during a family weekend drive.

Eunice, a devoted Christian,  read her Bible daily and prayed in the morning and at night and loved her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. A social butterfly and fashionista attended church services in every faith with dear friends and family. She experience the joys of square dancing and discos, bowling tournament wins, memorable vacations, and listening to music playing on a record player, tape or CD player. Her favorite pastime was collecting gorgeous brooches, watching westerns and soap operas, and eating bushels of Maryland Blue Crabs and her favorite part of the crab was the mustard. In addition, she loved buttermilk, ice cream, homemade soups and beans, roasted peanuts, roasted garlic, seafood, butter beans, bananas, Rotisserie Chicken, food from the Amish Market, and zero sugar colas or Pepsi. Eunice had a giving heart to family and friends and gave to several causes throughout her lifetime.

Eunice is survived by her loving and devoted daughter Joan E. Gandy, son in law Kennedy D. Gandy, granddaughter Kennedy J. Gandy, grandsons Charles M. Boswell Jr. (Tiziana) and Joshua E. Lewis (Adilene) and four great-grandchildren. In addition, she is survived by her loving and devoted aunts Rev. Louella Wilburn and Rev. Christine Lucas, special devoted cousins Margie Moon, Daryl R. Wilburn, Sandra Blackstone, and a special devoted family friend of several decades Mrs. Joann Miller. Additionally, Eunice leaves to mourn a son James T. Kimbrough, sisters Maxine Jennings and Janice Allen, and brothers Ralph Hills, Kenneth Blackstone and Roderick Blackstone, and a host of nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, cousins, and friends. She was preceded in death by her infant son Jason A. Kimbrough, parents Rev. Richard R. and Mildred Blackstone Sr., Rev. Palmyra Blackstone, sister Velma Pack, brothers Richard R. Blackstone Jr., Steven Blackstone Sr., devoted close friend Louis Frye Sr., and countless family and friends throughout her extraordinary journey in life.

In accordance with Eunice’s wishes, her ashes will be sprinkled among her requested places at a later date. An online video of a celebration of Eunice Kimbrough’s life will be featured in the near future.

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