- Date Of Birth: January 25, 1918
- Date Of Death: November 17, 2011
- State: Iowa
Elaine Paulson was born to Anna Ruth Garman and Fritz Hilding Paulson on January 25, 1918 in Moline, Illinois. Elaine graduated from Moline High School with the class of 1936 and attended Moline Business College. She was employed in the addressing department of Desaulniers & Co.
On September 28, 1939, Elaine married Louis Glenn Kline from Melrose, Iowa. They began their family with the birth of their first three children, Louis Jr., David and Joanne. During the war Elaine worked at an airplane factory as a riveter.
In 1946, Louis and Elaine sold the home that they had built in Moline and moved to a recently purchased farm in rural Chariton where they began life in the country growing crops and raising livestock. Three more children, Nancy, Robert and Kathy were born.
On January 25, 1969, Elaine married Lewis S. Pearson and the two continued farming. One of the highlights of their marriage was a trip to Spain in 1975.
As a child Elaine loved to make doll clothes and often made them for friends. This hobby followed her into adulthood where she used her meticulous abilities to patch clothes for her family until her late eighties. For many years Elaine maintained a large garden and used her produce to feed her large family.
Elaine died on Thursday, November 17, 2011 surrounded by her loved ones at Knoxville Community Hospital. She is preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, one sister, her son David and her daughter Joanne Crandall. Elaine is survived by her children Louis (Ruth) Kline, Jr. of Chariton, Nancy Kline of Knoxville, Robert (Dianne) Kline of Chariton, Kathy Kline of Chariton, son-in-law Lee Crandall of Indianola, 14 grandchildren, 24+ great grandchildren, two great-great grandchildren, brother-in-law Lew Clark of Corydon and many nieces and nephews.
