Pauline Herder Carson Swain, 95, died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, in McPherson.
After graduating from high school she went to work in El Dorado in her sister-in-law’s cafe where she met her husband Lewis Carson. They were married for 47 years. She worked at Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita for 23 years while living in El Dorado. After he retired from Skelly Oil Company and she from Boeing, they moved to Kimberling City, Mo., for five years before moving to Yates Center where they made their home.
She attended First Christian Church in Yates Center.
Her husband died in 1982 and in 1983 she married Merle Swain of Little Sioux, Iowa. Swain died in October 1999.
Survivors include her four children, Robert and his wife, Judy, McPherson, Marion and his wife, Judy, Winfield, Marilyn Stroud, Edinburg, Texas, and Larry “Kit” and his wife, Lisa, Davao City, Philippines; a stepdaughter, Joleen Swain; nine grandchildren and five stepgrandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at First Christian Church in Yates Center. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Walnut Valley Memorial Park Cemetery in El Dorado.
Memorials to Kansas Hospice or Yates Center Senior Center may be sent in care of Campbell Funeral Home, P.O. Box 188, Yates Center, KS 66783.
Pauline Swain
