Pauline Russell LaFarlette

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Mrs. Pauline Russell LaFarlette, 80, of Gosnell, passed from this life Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville.

Born in Blytheville to Mitchell Luster and Gracie O'Dell Southard Russell, she was retired from Columbia Carbon and Ribbon and was a member of the Fairview Baptist Church. Pauline was also a past member of the Gosnell Chapter Extension Homemakers and loved to work in her flower garden. She also enjoyed sewing and canning and was a former Sunday school teacher at Woodland Corner Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John LaFarlette; and two brothers, Waddell Russell and J.C. Russell.

She leaves her children, Kathy Hogan and her husband, Jimmy, and Carol Ann Wiencek and her husband, Bernell Sr., both of Gosnell;

Two sisters, Evelyn White of Gosnell and Pearline Taylor of Senatobia, Miss.;

A granddaughter, Erin Hogan;

A step-granddaughter, Victoria DeBoard; and

Two step-grandsons, Bernell Wiencek Jr. and Quinten Wiencek.

Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Elmwood Cemetery, with Dr. Maxel Briley officiating. The family will receive visitors from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Cobb Funeral Home.

Condolences may be emailed to cobbfuneralhome@sbcglobal.net