03/10/1959
Paulina Maude Stittsworth passed away on March 10, 1959 as a result of an automobile accident which occurred that same day as she drove to her place of work.
Pauline, Maude Stittsworth, daughter of John Louis and Dallie Powers Stittsworth, was born Feb.5 1904, at the farm home near Knoxville and died March 10, at the age of 55 years.
She attended the Marion County, rural schools and the Knoxville High School, graduating in the spring of 1923.
She received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Drake University and did graduate work at the University of Wyoming and was affiliated with a Teachers’ Educational Sorority. She obtained further education in order to qualify as a school teacher.
One of the schools at which she taught was Pleasant Ridge rural school in Knoxville
Township; that school later became a museum at Marion County Park.
Pauline had been a teacher in
the Knoxville Community Schools and also in the Schools in the northern part of the state for 30 years and at time of her death was teaching in Dallas.
She was a faithful member of the First Presbyterian Church in, Knoxville.
She is survived by two sisters
and a brother, Mrs. Parke Flanders of Buffalo, N.Y.; Inez and Arthur of Knoxville, several nieces and nephews.
Her parents, a brother and sister preceded her in death.
Services were held at the First Presbyterian Church in Knoxville March 12, conducted by the pastor, Rev. John Giesbrecht, and assisted by Rev. John Howard pastor of the Assembly of God Church. Miss Stittsworth was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.