Pauline Lucille (Michelson) GREIMAN

MICHELSON, GREIMAN, JOHNSON, HANSEN, MASQUELIER, SCHWABE, SMITH, EISENMAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/10/2010 at 15:52:18

The Garner Leader & Signal, Iowa
September 10, 2008

Pauline L. Greiman, 91, of Garner, died on Monday, September 1, 2008, at the Hancock County Memorial Hospital in Britt. Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m., on Friday, at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church in Garner, with Rev. David Graham officiating. Burial was in the Concord Township Cemetery. The Cataldo Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Pauline Lucille Greiman, the daughter of Lester and May (Johnson) Michelson, was born on September 25, 1916, on a farm near Kanawha. She attended the rural schools of Amsterdam Township and graduated from the Crystal Lake High School.
On December 18, 1937, she was married to Howard Greiman at the Peace Reformed Church Parsonage south of Garner. They lived in Garner where they raised their three sons. Pauline helped manage the Sport Bowl in Garner for a number of years. She also did day care in her home after her boys graduated from high school. In January of 2005, she entered the Concord Care Center. Pauline enjoyed cooking, baking, listening to music, reading, crocheting, bowling and, in her younger years, dancing. She was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, Women's Fellowship and was a charter member of the Beta Sigma Phil Sorority and the Hancock County Historical Society.

Pauline is survived by her sons, Terry (Rita) Hansen Greiman of Bloomfield, New Mexico and Greg Greiman of Garner; a daughter-in-law, Jeanne Masquelier of Penn Valley, California; grandson, Lt. Col. Christopher (Tara) Greiman of Springfield, Virginia; a granddaughter, Dr. Jennifer Greiman of Albany, New York; a step-grandson, Paul Schwabe of Golden, Colorado; great-grandchildren, Tristyn and Hayden Greiman; a sister, Beverly Smith of Alden; a brother, Bud Michelson of Independence; and sisters-in-law, Wanda Michelson of Manchester and Ardith Michelson of Klemme. She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard on December 10, 2004; her parents; son, Harley; grandson, Brenden Jon Greiman; sister, Vivian; brothers, Raymond and Allen Michelson; sister-in-law, Blanche Eisenman Michelson; and a brother-in-law, Vernon Smith.