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Eleanore Paulson
Eleanore Kay Paulson, daughter of Chris and Katherine Melohn, was born August 15, 1915 in Pomeroy, Iowa. Eleanore attended grade schools in Pomeroy and Lytton and graduated from Jolley High School on May 19, 1932. Eleanore attended Iowa Teachers College in Cedar Falls, graduating with her teaching certificate in 1934. Eleanore taught in a one room school house for 10 years. In 1944, she met Vernon Paulson at a dance and they were united in marriage on December 28, 1944. Eleanore finished out the school year and she and Vernon purchased his parents’ home and farm land in rural Grand Junction, 5 miles east of Dana. She lived and worked on the farm until the fall of 1988 when she moved to Park Place condos in Jefferson. She resided at the condo for 20 years until 2008 when she resided at the Gowrie Care Center, where she passed away on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at the age of 95. God blessed Eleanore’s children and grandchildren with a wonderful Mother and Grandmother. They always looked forward to Christmas and Thanksgiving at Grandma’s, because she was a wonderful cook. She was active in her community and her church. In 1967, she won the Grand Champion Pie in the Bake-with-Lard Contest sponsored by the Greene County Swine Producers, where her pie sold for a near record price of $100. She was a member of the Mothers Council Club and St. Johns Ladies Aid. She taught Sunday and Vacation Bible School at St. John’s Lutheran Church in the country and Dana. After it closed she was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Ogden and later a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Jefferson where she was a member at her death. Preceding her in death was her husband Vernon; son Douglas; two Sisters Vyola Casey and Agnes Morwitzer; one brother Kenneth Melohn; and twin brothers in infancy. She is survived by two sons Darlowe and his wife Debbie of Spring, Texas and Tom of rural Grand Junction who still farms the home place; two daughters Raejean Jones and her husband Gary of Ankeny and Roxalyn Dwyer-Greer and her husband Roger of Pekin, Illinois. She is also survived by ten grandchildren and six great grandchildren. |
Funeral Services for Eleanore Paulson, 95, of Jefferson will be 10:30 am Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Jefferson. Interment will be in Maas Cemetery, north of Ogden, IA. Visitation will be after 2:00 pm Wednesday at Slininger-Rossow Funeral Home in Jefferson with the family present to greet friends from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Memorials are suggested to Trinity Lutheran Church or Iowa Hospice and may be left at Slininger-Rossow Funeral Home.