Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Fairfield Recorder newspaper
January 22, 2009




Pauline Leona (Guest) Manahan

Funeral services were held Monday for Pauline Leona Guest Manahan, 91, of 
Fairfield who died Friday, Jan. 9.

Mrs. Manahan was born in Collinsville, Oklahoma on July 13, 1917 to Lonnie and 
Matilda (Puettgen) Guest.

Her identical twin, Irene Delpha Guest, died of whooping cough at four months of 
age.

During the oil boom, the Guest family moved to Mexia where Mrs. Manahan's father 
was employed as a welder with Ohio Daily Works.

She attended area schools and began work at an early age to assuage the effects 
of the depression.

On June 22, 1936, she married Willard "Buddy" Manahan in West Columbia. The two 
met at a Mexia restaurant where Mrs. Manahan worked as a waitress.

During her career, she was employed for several years with Peyton Brothers and 
England's Jewelry, both located in Fairfield.

She also helped her husband manage their gravel and cattle businesses.

Mrs. Manahan was a member of the First Baptist Church of Fairfield for over 70 
years.

Services were held Monday, Jan. 12, at Griffin- Roughton Funeral Home in 
Fairfield with Benny Mize officiating.

Special music was provided by Mrs. Manahan's nephew, John Stroud, who sang some 
of his aunt's favorite hymns.

Interment followed at Fairfield Cemetery with John, Laythan, Sid, and Hugh 
Stroud and Onis and Davis Ellis serving as pallbearers.

Mrs. Manahan is survived by her brother Raymond Guest and his wife Johnnie Mae 
of Redlands, Califronia; nephews, John Stroud and wife Verla of Tyler, Laythan 
Stroud and wife Nancy of Denton, Hugh Stroud and wife Carolyn of Graham, Sid 
Stroud and wife Jill of Allen, Leo Guest and wife Charlene, Lon Guest and wife 
Pam; nieces, Tommie Nell Ellis and husband Onis of Abilene.

Funeral arrangements were made by Griffin- Roughton Funeral Home of Fairfield.