Josephine Smith Rawlins 1913-1991

RAWLINS, SMITH, DURLER, SCHULTZ, PLETCHER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 3/2/2013 at 23:28:31

Josephine Rawlins
Estherville – Services for Josephine S. Rawlins, 78, will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Chapel with Father Richard Birdsall officiating. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery. She died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1991 at her home in Estherville.

She was born June 30, 1913 at Pittsburgh, Pa., daughter of Louis and Mamie (Durler) Smith and attended school and graduated from high school in Pittsburgh. She also attended Robert Morris Business School in Pittsburgh. She was employed as a bookkeeper for Melon Bank for many years and later was employed as a medical transcriptionist for a urologist in Pittsburgh. She moved to Estherville in September of 1988. She was a member of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Pittsburgh.

Survivors include her niece, Mrs. Michael (Patricia) Schultz, Estherville; one grandniece and one grandnephew; a sister Grace Pletcher and brother Louis Smith both of Pittsburgh.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister and two brothers. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, November 16, 1991)