Nowata Star
126 E. Cherokee St.
Nowata, OK 74048
March 7, 2001
Permission for archiving obituaries given by Phillip
Reid, Publisher
Funeral services for Florence Pauline
Stewart, 87, former Coffeyville,
Kansas resident, who died Saturday, March 3, 2001 at the
Homme Home in
Wittenberg,
Wisconsin, will be at the graveside in the Childers-Chapel Cemetery north of
Childers at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 8 with the Reverend Rick
Thayer of the Nowata United Methodist Church officiating. Services and interment will be under the direction of the Stumpff-Nowata Funeral Home. The family will receive friends on Wednesday at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m.
Pauline was born May 3, 1913 in
Bartlett,
Kansas to Neil and
Maud Cannell McNeal. After high school she completed
Kansas State Teacher's
College in Pittsburg,
Kansas. She taught in a one room schoolhouse in
Kansas. On January 23, 1937, she was united in marriage to Leo
Stewart at the church parsonage in Coffeyville,
Kansas. Her husband was a radio engineer so the couple moved to various places due to his job. She was a nursing assistant for over ten years at the
Monroe Manor in
Monroe,
Wisconsin. In 1985 the couple moved to Shawano,
Wisconsin and on April 3, 1988, her husband, Leo preceded her in death. Since 1999 she has resided at
Homme Home in
Wittenberg,
Wisconsin. Pauline was a life long Methodist and was very active in many churches over the years. Her interests include gardening, reading and she especially enjoyed
English poetry. She will be remembered most as a loving mother, grandmother and friend.
Survivors include two children: Richard
Stewart of Eugene,
Oregon and Mary Mark
Peterson of Caroling,
Wisconsin and several other relatives and friends.
She is preceded in death by her husband, a son in infancy, James Leo and two sisters:
Blanche Hite and in infancy her twin,
Rosamond.