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.