Another soldier called home to the land of Glory before God. Pauline carried her soldier years with her wherever she went. Her home decorated with anything she could find that was patriotic. Until her death at the tender age of eighty-eight she was one of the most patriotic persons you would ever meet.
In her earlier years she met and finally married a man she had met years earlier in the Navy. Rudolph "Rudy" Yedinak. They were married in 1949, for 18ish years. But it seems that was to end in divorce. Yet I know first hand the love they had for each other went with them long after the divorce and anything else life was to hand to them.
It seems Rudy would try from time to time to get this love of his life back, even many years after divorced papers were done. According to his second wife he called her [Pauline's] name out in his waking hours and his sleep. It made her feel bad. She talked with Pauline after she could not cope any longer with these events.
Parents and siblings all gone now. She was the last of 7 children to take wings from earthly bounds. Father named Orge and mother Rossettia [Anderson] Helton. Siblings were Jim, Cecil, Zenilee, Jack, Kenneth, and Helen. She just lost the last of her siblings, Jim in Sept of 2010.
She managed to survive her 8 weeks basic training in Hunter College, NY. On to Bunker Hill and a metal shop and learned many phases of metal fabrication. Such jobs as riveting, braising, welding and soldering fabricated components used on the B-26's that were used to drop bombs on Germany and Japan. In Hawaii her company built components for destroyers and aircraft during WW II.
Her unit was in Honolulu, Hawaii located on Barber's Point, and there she and her other fellow soldiers worked in the sheet metal shop where repairs took place for ships as needed. There she loved to recall her days of eating many pineapples fresh. This place on earth houses some of her most precious memories even though it was bad times with the country at war.
Discharged from the Navy in Dec. of 1945. She had received several military service medals. Some ribbons, including the good conduct medal. Two campaingn ribbons, WW II Combar Ribbon as many citiations for good work.
In 1972 Pauline moved to Missouri where she would spend the rest of her life. She lived in Southern Missouri in Rockaway Beach, and Branson area for a very long time. In the 1980's she moved to the Springfield, MO. area and then finally settled in Nixa, MO.
The only reason she left Nixa was to make her final move to the Mt. Vernon Veterans Home, in Mt. Vernon, MO. in April 2010 where she had residence in a room close to nursing station. Meeting another soldier she was so excited to tell me about, Jean. They sure made a pair as they wheeled themselves about the home on the electronic wheelchairs. A common bond of both having had broken backs in the life to share as well as the military service during the war.
Pauline passed peacefully on the Sunday morning what appeared to be more of heart stopping. She had said just a couple of months ago she had more or less given up and her time was nearly up. She also told me last year she did not ever think she would live this long. Her obituary will appear in the Springfield News paper on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Asking to be cremated and wanting her little dog Pistolette's ashes put with hers. This little dog she called affectionatly "Pitty" was her last live in companion.
She loved to make jewelry, and made some bed throws and wheelchair bags for the "inmates" with her at Mt. Vernon Home. She loved crocheting and made many things for many people in her life time. My prized possession she made for me about 1976 while we were in Rockaway Beach, MO. a black and white poncho. She crocheted one for herself as well, and I was still wearing that as I did every year with the changes of season during spring and fall seasons. I wore it to the hospital the day before she died, and she was trying to remember where hers was.
She had many friends and will be missed by all of them. As we will all be missing her and the laughter she brought with her wherever she traveled.
My visiting memorial friends, please leave Miss Pauline a flag when you stop to read her page. She loved the patriotic memorabilia in any shape. Even a heart shaped flag on Sweethearts day was okay with her. A four leaf clover flag left with the luck of the Irish day. Whatever shape your token of flag you leave for her will make her happy.
In her earlier years she met and finally married a man she had met years earlier in the Navy. Rudolph "Rudy" Yedinak. They were married in 1949, for 18ish years. But it seems that was to end in divorce. Yet I know first hand the love they had for each other went with them long after the divorce and anything else life was to hand to them.
It seems Rudy would try from time to time to get this love of his life back, even many years after divorced papers were done. According to his second wife he called her [Pauline's] name out in his waking hours and his sleep. It made her feel bad. She talked with Pauline after she could not cope any longer with these events.
Parents and siblings all gone now. She was the last of 7 children to take wings from earthly bounds. Father named Orge and mother Rossettia [Anderson] Helton. Siblings were Jim, Cecil, Zenilee, Jack, Kenneth, and Helen. She just lost the last of her siblings, Jim in Sept of 2010.
She managed to survive her 8 weeks basic training in Hunter College, NY. On to Bunker Hill and a metal shop and learned many phases of metal fabrication. Such jobs as riveting, braising, welding and soldering fabricated components used on the B-26's that were used to drop bombs on Germany and Japan. In Hawaii her company built components for destroyers and aircraft during WW II.
Her unit was in Honolulu, Hawaii located on Barber's Point, and there she and her other fellow soldiers worked in the sheet metal shop where repairs took place for ships as needed. There she loved to recall her days of eating many pineapples fresh. This place on earth houses some of her most precious memories even though it was bad times with the country at war.
Discharged from the Navy in Dec. of 1945. She had received several military service medals. Some ribbons, including the good conduct medal. Two campaingn ribbons, WW II Combar Ribbon as many citiations for good work.
In 1972 Pauline moved to Missouri where she would spend the rest of her life. She lived in Southern Missouri in Rockaway Beach, and Branson area for a very long time. In the 1980's she moved to the Springfield, MO. area and then finally settled in Nixa, MO.
The only reason she left Nixa was to make her final move to the Mt. Vernon Veterans Home, in Mt. Vernon, MO. in April 2010 where she had residence in a room close to nursing station. Meeting another soldier she was so excited to tell me about, Jean. They sure made a pair as they wheeled themselves about the home on the electronic wheelchairs. A common bond of both having had broken backs in the life to share as well as the military service during the war.
Pauline passed peacefully on the Sunday morning what appeared to be more of heart stopping. She had said just a couple of months ago she had more or less given up and her time was nearly up. She also told me last year she did not ever think she would live this long. Her obituary will appear in the Springfield News paper on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Asking to be cremated and wanting her little dog Pistolette's ashes put with hers. This little dog she called affectionatly "Pitty" was her last live in companion.
She loved to make jewelry, and made some bed throws and wheelchair bags for the "inmates" with her at Mt. Vernon Home. She loved crocheting and made many things for many people in her life time. My prized possession she made for me about 1976 while we were in Rockaway Beach, MO. a black and white poncho. She crocheted one for herself as well, and I was still wearing that as I did every year with the changes of season during spring and fall seasons. I wore it to the hospital the day before she died, and she was trying to remember where hers was.
She had many friends and will be missed by all of them. As we will all be missing her and the laughter she brought with her wherever she traveled.
My visiting memorial friends, please leave Miss Pauline a flag when you stop to read her page. She loved the patriotic memorabilia in any shape. Even a heart shaped flag on Sweethearts day was okay with her. A four leaf clover flag left with the luck of the Irish day. Whatever shape your token of flag you leave for her will make her happy.
Another soldier called home to the land of Glory before God. Pauline carried her soldier years with her wherever she went. Her home decorated with anything she could find that was patriotic. Until her death at the tender age of eighty-eight she was one of the most patriotic persons you would ever meet.
In her earlier years she met and finally married a man she had met years earlier in the Navy. Rudolph "Rudy" Yedinak. They were married in 1949, for 18ish years. But it seems that was to end in divorce. Yet I know first hand the love they had for each other went with them long after the divorce and anything else life was to hand to them.
It seems Rudy would try from time to time to get this love of his life back, even many years after divorced papers were done. According to his second wife he called her [Pauline's] name out in his waking hours and his sleep. It made her feel bad. She talked with Pauline after she could not cope any longer with these events.
Parents and siblings all gone now. She was the last of 7 children to take wings from earthly bounds. Father named Orge and mother Rossettia [Anderson] Helton. Siblings were Jim, Cecil, Zenilee, Jack, Kenneth, and Helen. She just lost the last of her siblings, Jim in Sept of 2010.
She managed to survive her 8 weeks basic training in Hunter College, NY. On to Bunker Hill and a metal shop and learned many phases of metal fabrication. Such jobs as riveting, braising, welding and soldering fabricated components used on the B-26's that were used to drop bombs on Germany and Japan. In Hawaii her company built components for destroyers and aircraft during WW II.
Her unit was in Honolulu, Hawaii located on Barber's Point, and there she and her other fellow soldiers worked in the sheet metal shop where repairs took place for ships as needed. There she loved to recall her days of eating many pineapples fresh. This place on earth houses some of her most precious memories even though it was bad times with the country at war.
Discharged from the Navy in Dec. of 1945. She had received several military service medals. Some ribbons, including the good conduct medal. Two campaingn ribbons, WW II Combar Ribbon as many citiations for good work.
In 1972 Pauline moved to Missouri where she would spend the rest of her life. She lived in Southern Missouri in Rockaway Beach, and Branson area for a very long time. In the 1980's she moved to the Springfield, MO. area and then finally settled in Nixa, MO.
The only reason she left Nixa was to make her final move to the Mt. Vernon Veterans Home, in Mt. Vernon, MO. in April 2010 where she had residence in a room close to nursing station. Meeting another soldier she was so excited to tell me about, Jean. They sure made a pair as they wheeled themselves about the home on the electronic wheelchairs. A common bond of both having had broken backs in the life to share as well as the military service during the war.
Pauline passed peacefully on the Sunday morning what appeared to be more of heart stopping. She had said just a couple of months ago she had more or less given up and her time was nearly up. She also told me last year she did not ever think she would live this long. Her obituary will appear in the Springfield News paper on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Asking to be cremated and wanting her little dog Pistolette's ashes put with hers. This little dog she called affectionatly "Pitty" was her last live in companion.
She loved to make jewelry, and made some bed throws and wheelchair bags for the "inmates" with her at Mt. Vernon Home. She loved crocheting and made many things for many people in her life time. My prized possession she made for me about 1976 while we were in Rockaway Beach, MO. a black and white poncho. She crocheted one for herself as well, and I was still wearing that as I did every year with the changes of season during spring and fall seasons. I wore it to the hospital the day before she died, and she was trying to remember where hers was.
She had many friends and will be missed by all of them. As we will all be missing her and the laughter she brought with her wherever she traveled.
My visiting memorial friends, please leave Miss Pauline a flag when you stop to read her page. She loved the patriotic memorabilia in any shape. Even a heart shaped flag on Sweethearts day was okay with her. A four leaf clover flag left with the luck of the Irish day. Whatever shape your token of flag you leave for her will make her happy.
In her earlier years she met and finally married a man she had met years earlier in the Navy. Rudolph "Rudy" Yedinak. They were married in 1949, for 18ish years. But it seems that was to end in divorce. Yet I know first hand the love they had for each other went with them long after the divorce and anything else life was to hand to them.
It seems Rudy would try from time to time to get this love of his life back, even many years after divorced papers were done. According to his second wife he called her [Pauline's] name out in his waking hours and his sleep. It made her feel bad. She talked with Pauline after she could not cope any longer with these events.
Parents and siblings all gone now. She was the last of 7 children to take wings from earthly bounds. Father named Orge and mother Rossettia [Anderson] Helton. Siblings were Jim, Cecil, Zenilee, Jack, Kenneth, and Helen. She just lost the last of her siblings, Jim in Sept of 2010.
She managed to survive her 8 weeks basic training in Hunter College, NY. On to Bunker Hill and a metal shop and learned many phases of metal fabrication. Such jobs as riveting, braising, welding and soldering fabricated components used on the B-26's that were used to drop bombs on Germany and Japan. In Hawaii her company built components for destroyers and aircraft during WW II.
Her unit was in Honolulu, Hawaii located on Barber's Point, and there she and her other fellow soldiers worked in the sheet metal shop where repairs took place for ships as needed. There she loved to recall her days of eating many pineapples fresh. This place on earth houses some of her most precious memories even though it was bad times with the country at war.
Discharged from the Navy in Dec. of 1945. She had received several military service medals. Some ribbons, including the good conduct medal. Two campaingn ribbons, WW II Combar Ribbon as many citiations for good work.
In 1972 Pauline moved to Missouri where she would spend the rest of her life. She lived in Southern Missouri in Rockaway Beach, and Branson area for a very long time. In the 1980's she moved to the Springfield, MO. area and then finally settled in Nixa, MO.
The only reason she left Nixa was to make her final move to the Mt. Vernon Veterans Home, in Mt. Vernon, MO. in April 2010 where she had residence in a room close to nursing station. Meeting another soldier she was so excited to tell me about, Jean. They sure made a pair as they wheeled themselves about the home on the electronic wheelchairs. A common bond of both having had broken backs in the life to share as well as the military service during the war.
Pauline passed peacefully on the Sunday morning what appeared to be more of heart stopping. She had said just a couple of months ago she had more or less given up and her time was nearly up. She also told me last year she did not ever think she would live this long. Her obituary will appear in the Springfield News paper on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Asking to be cremated and wanting her little dog Pistolette's ashes put with hers. This little dog she called affectionatly "Pitty" was her last live in companion.
She loved to make jewelry, and made some bed throws and wheelchair bags for the "inmates" with her at Mt. Vernon Home. She loved crocheting and made many things for many people in her life time. My prized possession she made for me about 1976 while we were in Rockaway Beach, MO. a black and white poncho. She crocheted one for herself as well, and I was still wearing that as I did every year with the changes of season during spring and fall seasons. I wore it to the hospital the day before she died, and she was trying to remember where hers was.
She had many friends and will be missed by all of them. As we will all be missing her and the laughter she brought with her wherever she traveled.
My visiting memorial friends, please leave Miss Pauline a flag when you stop to read her page. She loved the patriotic memorabilia in any shape. Even a heart shaped flag on Sweethearts day was okay with her. A four leaf clover flag left with the luck of the Irish day. Whatever shape your token of flag you leave for her will make her happy.
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