Cohrs, Ramona Louise Paulsen (1915-2006)

COHRS, PAULSEN, SCHWENN, DUNIWAY, TELLEEN, BREWER

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 19:34:22

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, August 11, 2006

The former Ramona Louise Paulsen was born in Schleswig, Iowa on March 29, 1915 the daughter of Henrietta Schwenn Paulsen and August D. Paulsen. She spent her childhood years in Denison, Iowa and later in Webster City. She graduated from Lincoln High School in 1933 and earned her Registered Nurse degree from Lutheran Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Chicago, Illinois in 1936.

While in Chicago she met Clarence Christopher Cohrs, a medical student. They were married in 1940 in Webster City. World War II intervened in the couple's plans, and her husband was sent overseas where he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Europe for 3 years. During his absence, Ramona and their infant daughter, Catherine, lived with her parents in Webster City where she worked as a nurse at Hamilton County Hospital. Upon her husband's return from military service, they returned to Harvey, Illinois and there their daughter Christine was born.

In 1948 the family moved to Moberly, Missouri where Dr. Cohrs practiced medicine for 39 years. Ramona and her husband were active members of Zion Lutheran Church. She greatly enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening, as well as flower arranging, and was a participant and a judge for years at the Missouri State Fair flower exhibit. She maintained a lifelong interest in the fields of nursing and public health, volunteering in many capacities. In 1989 she was elected to the Randolph County Board of Health and served for over ten years. In 2000 she moved to University Retirement Community in Davis, California.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Viola Brewer, in 2002 and by her husband in 1994.

She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Catherine and John Duniway of Davis, California and Christine and Michael Telleen of San Mateo, California; four grandchildren; four great-grandchilren; and her nephews Richard Brewer of Pleasant Hill, California, Larry Brewer of Charles City, Dennis Brewer of White Bear Lake, Minnesota and their wives.

A memorial service will be held at University Retirement Community on Sunday, August 13 at 2 p.m. Her nephew, Pastor Richard Brewer, will officiate. Interment will be at Oakland Cemetery in Moberly, Missouri; the date of a memorial service in Moberly is pending.

The family requests that memorial gifts be sent to Yolo Hospice, P.O. Box 1014, Davis, CA 95617; or the charity of choice.