Pauline Belle PATTERSON
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Aug 30, 1893 - Henderson County, North Carolina
Christening:
Death: Apr 12, 1978 - Hendersonville, NC
Burial: in Shepherd Mem Pk, Hgy 25, Asheville, NC
Cause of Death:
Events
1. Occupation in Homemaker
Parents
Father: Josephus Seth PATTERSON Sr. (1867-1928)
Mother: M. Florence BARRON (1872-1901)
Spouses and Children
1. *Ossa Lee NORMAN (Nov 6, 1893 - Jun 5, 1978)
Marriage: Jan 27, 1914
Status:
Children:
1. Ruth Marie NORMAN (1916-1974)
2. Noel Rockwell NORMAN (1917-1976)
3. Lucille Pauline NORMAN (1920- )
4. Josephus Gaston NORMAN (1922-1986)
5. Grace Minnie Lee NORMAN (1924- )
6. Ossa Lee NORMAN Jr. (1932-1976)
7. Mary Frances NORMAN (1936- )
Notes
General:
Pauline was a warm and loving person. She always had time for a neighbor, a daughter, or a granddaughter. Her kitchen table was a wonderful place to sit and visit. He dining table was always groaning with enough food for company. You could depend on green beans, cooked apples, creamed corn, and hot corn bread. There were preserves and jellies she had made, including quince preserves, apple butter, and scuppernog grape jam. She cooked on a wood stove until the 1950's. She sewed wonderful dresses for granddaughters and no doubt clothes for the whole family in earlier years. She raised her seven children with her husband working in Asheville and not being home often. She nursed them through measles and other childhook diseases and even typhoid, which Joe had. She grew a garden, canned its produce and milked a cow. She was tall and big boned. Her height was about 5'10". In later years her hair was snow white. She suffered with osteoarthritis and said it had become noticeable when she was in her 40's. Later in her 60's doctors told her her hip joint was destroyed, but somehow she kept walking, using a walker. She said that she knew she had to get up and move everyday because if she did not she would soon stiffen up and be unable to move. She used a walker for many years and great grandchildren liked to play on it. She used to keep people from washing dishes for her by saying the hot water was good for her arthritic fingers. She never learned to drive and was virtually housebound in later years. She would take the bus to Hendersonville to shop or treat a visiting grandchild. She loved to visit others and traveled to Florida to see her daughter Mary and son Joe. She maintained a correspondence with Laura for years and probably with anyone who wrote her. She made you feel special and cared about and was the kind of person who never judged or criticised. She kept in touch with everyone in the family. She was active in East Flat Rock Methodist Church all her life and both loved her religion and lived it. Her mother died when she was eight and her father remarried and had a large second family. Pauline was responsible for all the younger siblings and did much of the cooking and cleaning in the house. When her father had political parties even after she married, she was often there cooking with babies along with her in the kitchen. She remembered her mother's name (Florence Barron) and the name of her grandmothe (Hattie) as well as her mother's sister (Julia) and brother (William). These facts she shared with me along with the mention of Caroleen in Rutherford County as the place the Pattersons lived before they came to Henderson County. Besides her arthritis she was a healthy and strong woman. She developed hypertension as she aged and suffered a stroke about 2 years before she died. She was partially paralyzed and never got out of bed again and died possibly of a heart attack. (Source: Memories of granddaughter Laura Norman Wareh)