Winn, Pauline (Graham)

Pauline Winn
Sept. 6, 1875-April 12, 1949


    Mrs. Pauline Winn, 73, 116 South Fourth Street, died at 10 a.m. today in Pawating hospital after an illness of four weeks.
    Mrs. Winn was born Sept. 6, 1875, in Toronto, Canada.  She came to the area from Door Village, Ind.  After attending Benton Harbor Normal school, she taught in St. Joseph Valley and Matchett Peak schools for seven years before her marriage to the late John Winn, former county supervisor, Oct. 18, 1899.
    The Winns lived on a farm in the Bend of the River district until 1927, when they moved to their Niles home.
    Mrs. Winn was a member of the . . [illegible] . . Christian Service.
    Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Clayton McCoy, Niles, a granddaughter, Miss Marilyn McCoy, a University of Michigan student, a brother, Dr. W.T. Graham of Niles and two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Roach of Niles and Mrs. George Frost of Clearwater, Fla.
    Friends may call at the Kiger Funeral home this evening, at the Fourth street residence Wednesday and Thursday until noon and at the First Methodist church Thursday afternoon until the funeral services begin at 2 p.m.
    . .[Illegible]. .officiate and burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, April 12, 1949, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library