PAULSEN, Doris (Dieterich) 1917-1999

DIETERICH, PAULSEN, HARTWIG

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/14/2009 at 19:54:41

DORIS DIETERICH PAULSEN

MASON CITY, IOWA - Doris Dieterich Paulsen, 82, of 17396 Kingbird Ave., died Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999, at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Mason City, with the Rev. John "Jack" Gannett officiating. The body will be donated to the University of Iowa School of Medicine, Iowa City, with burial held at a later date at the Calvary Cemetery, rural Osage.

There will be no visitation. Major Erickson Funeral Home and Crematory, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Mason City, is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be directed to Trinity Lutheran Church, Mason City, or St. John's Lutheran Church, Osage.

Doris was born January 21, 1917, in Mitchell County, the daughter of Herman and Caroline (Hartwig) Dieterich. Doris graduated from Osage High School and Mason City Junior College, and received her bachelor of science degree from Wartburg College, Waverly. She also did some graduate work at Drake University in Des Moines.

Doris married Joseph H. Hamilton in 1960. She taught in the Charles City school system for 20 years, retiring in 1977. Doris was the church organist for more than 40 years at St. John's Lutheran Church, rural Osage. She taught and studied piano for many years, teaching many of those years in Mason City. She married Floyd Paulsen on Aug. 4, 1980.

In recent years Doris was the pianist and organist at Good Shepherd Health Center. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and Rebekah Circle. She also was, a volunteer at Mercy Hospital Women's Auxiliary, where she was past president, and a life member of the Kinny Lindstrom Pioneer Museum.

Doris is survived by two nieces, Elizabeth Payne, of Plymouth, Minn., and Helen Hansen, of Aurora, Colo.; a nephew, James McClain and his wife, Pat, of Seattle, Wash.; special step-granddaughter, Sally Jo Bernard, of Chelmsford, Mass.; four great nieces, Julia Komanecky, Angela Schott, Jamie McClain and Sherry McClain; and special friend, Paula Warren and her husband, Scott, of Mason City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Joseph and Floyd; one brother, Victor; and two sisters, Flora McClain and Eleanor Payne.

[Globe Gazette, Oct. 15, 1999]

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