T. F. Howard Palmer ( – November 18, 1969) was a Canadian curler. Palmer was the

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of the 1941 Brier Champion team, representing

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. He also won the Centennial Championship in

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, 1956. A native of

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, Palmer was inducted into the

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in 1970. He died in 1969 at the age of 62 in Lethbridge.

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