King, Pauline Clare Yoder (1920-2006)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2006 Mar 27 p. 8

Birth date: 1920 Nov 5

text of obituary:

PAULINE CLARE KING

Pauline Clare King, 85, of Goshen, Ind., died March 10, 2006, at Greencroft Healthcare. She was born Nov. 5, 1920, to Reuben and Mary (Zook) Yoder in Belleville, Pa.

She married Paul Leonard King on April 1, 1944, in Belleville.

She graduated from Lancaster Business College and worked at Big Valley Pennsylvania Bank. She moved to Goshen in 1959.

She was office manager for 17 years for the medical practice of Ernest Smucker and Jon Smucker. She was also a medical secretary for the nursing department of Goshen College and a transcriptionist in the Goshen College Administration Building.

She served two-and-a-half years in the 1980s with Mennonite Central Committee at Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti. She avidly followed current events in Haiti and continued to support medical care in Haiti.

She enjoyed reading and gardening. She was a member of College Mennonite Church of Goshen and a member of Phalo Club.

Survivors include five sons, Titus King and his wife, Joy, of Grass Lake, Mich., James King of Lancaster, Pa., John King and his wife, Kelli, of Goshen, Daniel King and his wife, Gloria, of Elkhart, and David King and his wife, Patricia, of Richmond, Va.; a daughter, Susanne Berlin and her husband, Richard, of Richmond, Mass.; two sisters, Arvilla King of Belleville and Lucille Gotwals of Souderton, Pa.; 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul King, on June 3, 1970; three brothers, Elton, Elmer and Merle Yoder; and a sister, Lola Goss.

Memorial services were held at College Mennonite Church in Goshen. Burial was in Elkhart Prairie Cemetery of Goshen.