Pauline (Garrett) Workman, 101, of Marrowbone, KY died Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at the Nazareth Home in Louisville, KY. She was born in the Marrowbone Community of Cumberland County, KY on October 14, 1916, the eldest daughter of Stanley and Verta (Davis) Garrett.
She was a member of Marrowbone United Methodist Church, Auburn Christian Church in Auburn, Illinois, and a clerical worker at Time, Inc. She was a 1934 graduate of the first graduating class of Martha Norris Memorial High School in Marrowbone, KY. She then moved to Illinois, and while there she attended Eastern Illinois University. She met and married her beloved husband, Dale Workman, on May 1, 1940, where they lived and worked in Chicago, Illinois, spent summers at their farm in Moorehead, Minnesota and traveled the world together until his death in 1983. She then returned to Marrowbone, KY where she resided until October 2015 and spent her last three years at the Nazareth Home in Louisville, KY.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her brother, Wesley Garrett, sisters, Margarine (Garrett) Armstrong and Dana (Garrett) Bradshaw.
SURVIVORS: 1 brother-in-law, Gary (Barbara) Workman of Moorehead, Minnesota, local nieces, Brenda (Bradshaw) Schissler (Wesley) of Crestwood, KY and Glenda Bradshaw of Louisville, KY. Other nieces and nephews include Charles (Linda) Garrett, Linda (Armstrong) Kinslow (Barry), Tommy Garrett, Harold (Linda) Armstrong, Charles (Tammy) Armstrong, Donnie (Maria) Garrett, Gary Allyn (Karen) Workman, B. Eugene Workman, Glenda Hogenson, Larry B. Workman, Margot Steinhart, Sherry A. Tallon, Rowena M. Neumann, Paula E. Kopp, Pamela J. Patton, Debra C. Workman, and a host of great nieces and great nephews.
Special thanks to Mary Haynes and the special staff at Nazareth Home for their continued care, love and support.
Funeral Service: Saturday, July 28, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. in the Memory Chapel of Norris-New Funeral Home
Graveside Service & Burial: Bilyeu Cemetery in Moweagua, Shelby County, Illinois on Monday, July 30, 2018 at 1:00pmCT
Visitation: After 11:00amCT on Saturday, July 28, 2018 until the funeral hour
Contributions may be made in her memory to Marrowbone United Methodist Church, 9078 Glasgow Road, Burkesville, KY, 42717 or to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 22 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tennessee, 38105.
Norris-New Funeral Home is honored to be in charge of all the arrangements.
