Pauline M. Grove Flory, 10 Jul 1919 - 14 Jun 2014

FLORY, GROVE, BRUERE, KUSSART, FIRTH, PETERSON, JANKE, DECOURSEY

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 7/30/2014 at 16:00:36

Pauline Flory, 94

Memorial service for Pauline M. Flory, 94, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 26, at South Waterloo Church of the Brethren, Waterloo. She died peacefully June 14, 2014, at Friendship Village, Waterloo, from complications of dementia.

Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until service time at the church.

Interment of ashes will be held at 3 p.m. at the English River Church of the Brethren Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the South Waterloo Church of the Brethren or Heifer International.

Locke Funeral Home, Waterloo, is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be left at www.LockeFuneralHome.com.

Pauline M. Flory was born July 10, 1919, in Monroe County, Iowa, the daughter of Earl and Sarah (Bruere) Grove. She married Leland E. Flory June 6, 1943, at the English River Church of the Brethren. He died Dec. 25, 1979. Previously, she resided in Cedar Rapids 10 years, Marion 41 years and the North English and Kinross area for 25 years. She retired in 1984, after 24 years of teaching kindergarten at Prairie Elementary, Cedar Rapids.

Flory is survived by four sons, Don (Marcia) Flory, Ron (Denise) Flory, Alan (Chris) Flory and John (Kris) Flory; one daughter, Carol (Glen) Kussart; 12 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; sisters, Dorothy (Bob Firth) Peterson and Harriette Janke; brother-in-law, Wesley DeCoursey; sister-in-law, Jeannette Grove, and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; one brother, Leland Grove; an older sister, Verda G. DeCoursey, and an infant brother, Paul.

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