• Born: 31 December 1929, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia ^{2 3}
• Marriage (1): Meelike MUURISEPP on 24 September 1960 in Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Marriage (2): Carolyn Sue MEADOWS about 1976 in prob Illinois, USA
• Died: 2 November 1991, Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA at age 61 ²
• Buried: 6 November 1991, Sullivan, Moultrie County, Illinois, USA

   Other names for Ilmar were I. PALM LEIS ³ and Ilmar PALM LEIS.

  Death Notes

St. Mary's Hospital

  Burial Notes

Greenhill Cemetery

  Recorded Events in His Life

• Parents: Lembit Palm-Leis and Marta Nigols.

• He immigrated in 1949.

• He was naturalized in 1955.

• Ilmar was featured in an article published in the newspaper on page 5 of The Decatur Daily Review on 22 July 1960 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA.

• His obituary was published on page A6 of the Herald & Review on 4 November 1991 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA. The obituary was also published in the same paper on Tuesday, 5 November 1991.
  
  
  DECATUR — Ilmar Palm-Leis, 61, of Decatur died Saturday (Nov. 2, 1991) in St. Mary's Hospital.
  
  Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday in Brintlinger's Funeral Home on Oakland Avenue, with visitation 5 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery, Sullivan. Memorials: Commodore Decatur Yacht Club, in care of Brintlinger's.
  
  Mr. Palm-Leis was born in Tallinn, Estonia, on Dec. 31, 1929, the first son of Lembit and Marta Palm-Leis. He graduated from Estonian Gumnaasium High School in the Estonian Displaced Persons Camp at Geislingen/Stg in 1949. His favorite interests included choral singing, track and field, woodworking, photography and painting.
  
  After immigrating to the United States in 1949, Mr. Palm-Leis became a United States citizen in 1955. He continued his education at Millikin University, the University of Illinois and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1957 with a B.S. degree in naval architecture and marine engineering. He was employed 31 years as an engineer at A.E. Staley Mfg. Co. and has been an engineering consultant since his retirement.
  
  He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, the Commodore Decatur Yacht Club, Thistle Class Association and an Estonian fraternity. Over the years Mr. Palm-Leis had a variety of interests and hobbies, ranging from singing and wood crafting and boat building. He continued a life-long love with water and sailing various boats.
  
  He married Carolyn Meadows in 1977.
  
  Surviving are his wife; mother, Marta of Carlsbad, Calif.; brothers, Lembit of Carlsbad, Calif.; Ahto of Toronto, Canada; Mati of Iola, Wis.; former wife Meelike Palm-Leis of St. Louis, Mo.; sons, ----- and daughter-in-law ----- of Pana; ----- of Springfield; granddaughter, ----- of Pana; stepchildren
  ----- ----- of Johnson City, Tenn.; ----- ----- of Los Angeles, Calif.
  
  His father, Lembit Palm-Leis, preceded him in death.

• He has conflicting death information of 15 November 1991 and Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA. ³

Ilmar married Meelike MUURISEPP on 24 September 1960 in Cook County, Illinois, USA. The marriage ended in divorce. (Meelike MUURISEPP was born on 25 October 1940 in Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia and died on 10 July 2000 in Downers Grove, DuPage County, Illinois, USA.)

Ilmar next married Carolyn Sue MEADOWS, daughter of Robert Loyd MEADOWS and Ada Mae MALLINSON, about 1976 in prob Illinois, USA. (Carolyn Sue MEADOWS was born on 31 December 1946 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA, died on 4 November 2000 in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA and was buried on 10 November 2000 in Sullivan, Moultrie County, Illinois, USA.). The cause of her death was Breast cancer.