January 18, 2011  

LOWVILLE, N.Y.  —  Pauline Agnes Anderson, 94, formerly of Highland Avenue, Lowville, died early Tuesday morning at Samaritan Keep Home, where she had resided for five years.

She was born Oct. 31, 1916, in Stamford, Conn., the daughter of the late Alexander and Mary Killeen Detlefsen. 

Pauline married the late Donald Anderson on Jan. 16, 1937, in Stamford, Conn. They moved to Lowville in 1952 where Donald worked for Payne Jones/Boise Cascade. Pauline was a homemaker. Pauline and Donald made their home on Highland Avenue in Lowville for over 39 years. He died March 11, 1995. 

While in Lowville she was a communicant of St. Peter’s Catholic Church. She was past president of the St. Peter's Alter Rosary Society and was a member of the Daughters of Isabella. 

She also helped at St. Peter's by taking children from public school to Release Time Religious Education. Pauline was very active in the Lewis County General Hospital Auxiliary and volunteered working in the snack bar there for many years.

Pauline loved knitting, crocheting, baking, and arts and crafts. She was a loving wife and mother always was there supporting her family through thick and thin. She had a long life spent praying daily, working hard and was always willing to talk, laugh and cry with the many people who knew her. She was loved by many in Lowville. At Samaritan Keep, she became close to the staff who worked hard and always showed their love and patience with her.

Surviving are a son and his wife, Douglas and Mary (Flood) Anderson, Watertown; a daughter-in-law, Susan Anderson, Goodyar, Ariz.; a niece Patricia (Steve) Skratt, Hampden, Maine; and grandchildren, Aileen, Watertown, Dean, Phoenix, Ariz., and Nicol, Arnold, Md. 

She was predeceased by her husband, D. Donald, a son, D. Donald, a brother, Timothy Detlefsen, and two sisters, Gertrude A. Smith and Mary Ariotti. 

Pauline cared greatly about the people she met through Church involvement and the neighbors who shared their time with her. This list is very, very long. But you all know who you are.

Don is waiting along with her Lord to give her the place in heaven that is certainly waiting for her. Goodbye mom, we will continue to meet you in our prayers...

A funeral Mass will be said 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 21, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Lowville, with Rev. Christopher Carrara, pastor, officiating. Spring burial will be in Lowville Rural Cemetery. Calling hours will be 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, at Sundquist Funeral Home, Lowville. 

Memorials in Pauline’s name may be made to: St. Peter's Altar and Rosary Society, or St. Peter's Church.







Information provided by Sundquist Funeral Home of Lowville and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.