Joliet’s Palmer Florist celebrates 100 years of a family business

Joliet’s Palmer Florist celebrates 100 years of a family business

A Crest Hill woman will forever treasure the kindness a Joliet florist showed her more than 16 years ago.On the Friday before Mother’s Day in 2007, MaryLou Wagnon went to Palmer Florist in Joliet to order flowers for her mother, who had just died.“The gentleman who took my order presented me with one beautiful rose, saying to me through my tears, ‘It’s hard enough losing your mother but harder so close to Mother’s Day,’ ” Wagnon said. “I’ll neve…