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PAULINE OPP Our parents, Jacob and Dora (Weller) Opp, had established a farm home ten miles southwest of Eureka where we children attended school in Jackson District. They had built up a large farm with herds of cattle and bounteous crops. Our dad passed away at the early age of 39 years after a brief illness from double pneumonia, as Dr. Gerdes diagnosed it. It was in the middle of winter and a very sad and difficult year for the family of five young children: Lydia (deceased), Barbara, Pauline, Milbert, and William (deceased). Our mother later married Jacob Kramlich to whom were born Otto Harry, D.D.S. (deceased) and Erna Lizbeth (Betty) Swanson, a teacher. At a young age, I was hired out around the neighborhood and in town to help with household tasks and serve as babysitter--a job I adhere to still. During the threshing season I practically moved with the threshing rig from farm to farm to help cook for threshers and take care of the children. After moving to town, I accepted the request to start work in the hospital where I was later assigned to the maternity ward. We always had a nursery full of babies and both floors occupied with patients. In February, 1954, seventeen babies were born, eleven in one week! In 1962 I was awarded a diploma after completing a course in Practical Nursing. The doctors those earlier years were Mark and Fred Graeber, Dr. Rosdahl, and the indispensable Dr. George McIntosh. The hours were often long and tedious, but it was work I liked, and, by the grace of God, I plodded on for 25-30 years, never missing a day of work because of illness until August, 1969, when I had to submit to major surgery. Since then I have had two more surgical episodes. After our mother died, I moved to an apartment where I still reside. I am a member of one of our A.L.C.W. Circles which was organized in 1962. I was a teacher in Sunday School and Bible School at Zion Lutheran Church for many years--never to be forgotten! Children are God's magical little people, and I've always had a special love for them; perhaps because I never had any of my own, or, perhaps because Jesus said we have to become like children. I am thankful that God is the Shepherd of my life. And God's Word is our great heritage.
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1909 - 1990 (80 years)