Pauline Stricker

JACKSON, Mo. -- Funeral Mass for Pauline E. Stricker, formerly of Gordonville, Mo., will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Msgr. Edward Eftink will officiate. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery at Charleston, Mo.

Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4-8 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7:30 p.m.

Stricker, 95, died Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2001, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home.

She was born March 31, 1906, in North Sudbury, Mass., daughter of Alfred and Mabel Provost Beauregard. She and Albert G. Stricker were married Nov. 8, 1927, in Charleston. He died June 11, 1981.

The Strickers moved to St. Louis in 1956 from Charleston, and then to Gordonville in 1973.

Stricker was a member of Immaculate Conception Church, St. Ann's Sodality, Legion of Mary, and charter member of Knights of Columbus Auxiliary.

Survivors include three daughters, Alberta Duchek of St. Louis, Agnes Boitnott of Jackson, Judy Taylor of Arnold, Mo.; two sons, Charles Stricker of Marion, Ill., Jim Stricker of Lakeland, Fla.; 13 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sons and a sister.