Pauline (Bonin) FROHWEIN

FROHWEIN, BONIN, JOHNSON, CUMMER, KREITLOW, LANE, SHARP, PACK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/15/2008 at 09:51:16

DOWS - Pauline Frohwein, 63, of Dows, died Thursday (June 12, 2008) at Heritage Care Center in Iowa Falls. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, June 16, at First Lutheran Church in Dows with Pastor Robert Edwards officiating. Burial will take place in the Fairview Cemetery in Dows. There will be no visitation, the body has been cremated. Arrangements are with Dugger Funeral Home, 100 N. Lee St. in Dows.

Mason City Globe Gazette
6/14/2008

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Pauline Frohwein, 63, Dows, died June 12, 2008 at Heritage Care Center in Iowa Falls. Services were held June 16 at First Lutheran Church in Dows with Rev. Robert Edwards officiating. Inurnment was in Fairview Cemetery, Dows.

Pauline, the daughter of Otto and Ida Evelyn Johnson Bonin, was born May 19, 1945 in Iowa Falls. She was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran in Iowa Falls and confirmed at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran in Fairmont, MN. Pauline attended schools in Iowa and Minnesota. She graduated from Iowa Falls High School in 1963 and attended a one-year business course at Ellsworth Community College. Pauline married Larry Frohwein on January 17, 1965. They were divorced in 1991. Pauline worked for eleven years at the USA Health Care Center in Dows. This was her extended family. The facility closed in May of 2002. Pauline was a member of First Lutheran in Dows where sheserved as deacon and church secretary from 2003 to 2007. Pauline was also a member of the Mary and Esther Circle, Harmony Club, and Friends of the Library. Her children, grandchildren and siblings were her greatest joy.

Pauline was preceded in death by her mother and a sister MaDonna. Pauline is survived by her children Bruce (Gayla) and their children Derek and Riley of Des Moines and Brenda (Kevin) Cummer and their children Andrew, Zachary and Tai of Waverly; father and step-mother Otto and Beverly of Dows; sisters Judy Kreitlow of Kirbyville, MO, Patricia (Donald) Lane of Dows, Lou Ann (LeRoy) Sharp of Cushing, OK and Shirley (Charles) Pack of Des Moines; and brother David (Joy) Bonin of Belmond.

June 17, 2008
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