David Allen Patton
, Tennessee
October 5, 2026
David Allen Patton, 78, died October 6, 2026, at Alvin C. York VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro.He was born to William Robert “Bill” Patton, Sr. and Mendia Oliver Patton in Palmer, TN, on October 12, 1947Mr. Patton was a U.S. Army veteran who served in Fort Hood, TX, at the same time his brother, Joel, was in Vietnam and Cambodia attached to the 25th Infantry.An alderman on the Palmer Board of Mayor and Alderman and Chairman of the Palmer Municipal Planning Commission, he was also the Palmer Town Historian. His greatest joy in that capacity was locating the family for whom the town of Palmer was named.Mr. Patton was deeply involved in local schools and founded the “Bill and Mendia Patton Patriotic Award” at the Grundy County High School in 2005. In 2006, he started an awards program at the Grundy County Spelling Bee followed by thriving awards programs at…