OBITUARY: Pauline Mae (West) Thurow, 1910-2004, Mitchell County, Iowa
                                                          
[ Adapted from: Mitchell County Press-News, October 20, 2004 ]




                         Pauline Mae Thurow

Memorial services for Pauline Mae Thurow, age 93, were held Monday,
Oct. 18, 2004 at First United Methodist Church, 819 Main Street,
Osage, Iowa, with the Reverend Dr. J. Samuel Subramanian officiating.

Inurnment was in the Riverside Cemetery, Charles City, Iowa.

Pauline died Oct. 3, 2004 at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in
Mason City, Iowa. 

Pauline was born Dec. 15, 1910, in Des Moines, Iowa; the daughter of
Charles Alva West and Hannah Naomi (Johnson) West. Pauline attended
Monroe, Byron and Rice Grade School and graduated from West High
School in Des Moines in January 1928. In high school she was a member
of the drama club and a member of First Federated Lutheran Church in
Des Moines, Iowa.

Pauline was employed by Northwestern Bell in Des Moines, while
completing night school in business machines until 1936 when she
resigned to marry Frank Thurow who operated the Dodge Plymouth
dealership in Osage. The couple wed on January 12, 1936 in Charles
City, Iowa at the home of his sister Mrs. Harry O'Harrow. Pauline
took charge of the Bookkeeping and Parts department at Thurow Motors
until the business closed 35 years later. In 1964 she joined the
Home Trust and Savings Bank as a teller and continued there until
her retirement.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Osage,
Iowa. She was faithful in worship there throughout her lifetime.
She worked as a member of United Methodist Women where she held a
treasurer position on the board and was a member of the Christian
Women's Club. She was also the founding treasurer for the Senior
Citizen Center and she herself found great fellowship there later.

Pauline spent her last three years at Faith Lutheran Nursing Home.
She died in Hospice Care at North Iowa Hospice Center, in Mason City,
following hip surgery at Mercy Medical Center of North Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; brother, Corlis;
sisters, Lilian and Clare.

Pauline is survived by her two daughters, Corlene Higley of Tulsa,
Oklahoma; and Judy Thurow of San Pedro, California; two grandchildren
Ken Higley of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Lynda Clements of Denver, Colorado;
five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.


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