His wife, Ruth, died in 1999. Palmer lived in Encino, California, and was an avid [[golf]]er. Palmer died in 2015 at the age of eighty-eight.<ref name="PalmerObit">{{cite web | url=http://westernboothill.blogspot.se/ | title=RIP Gregg Palmer | publisher=Western Boot Hill (blog) | date=November 1, 2015 | accessdate=November 2, 2015}}</ref> | His wife, Ruth, died in 1999. Palmer lived in Encino, California, and was an avid [[golf]]er. Palmer died in 2015 at the age of eighty-eight.<ref name="PalmerObit">{{cite web | url=http://westernboothill.blogspot.se/ | title=RIP Gregg Palmer | publisher=Western Boot Hill (blog) | date=November 1, 2015 | accessdate=November 2, 2015}}</ref> |