Pauline Edythe (Maiden) Compston
Mar 9, 1923 - Aug 26, 2018
Posted by: Jo Aguirre

BARTLESVILLE EXAMINER-ENTERPRISE
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)

Pauline Edythe Compston, 95, passed away Sunday August 27, 2018. Pauline was also known as GeeGee, a nickname given to her by one of her great-grandsons. The name stuck and most of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren called her GeeGee.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at the Stumpff Funeral Home with Connie McCray officiating.

Interment will be in the Lenapah Cemetery directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home and Crematory.

Pauline was born March 9, 1923 to Clarence and Edythe Maiden. She received her education in Nowata, Oklahoma. On August 23, 1941, she married the love of her life, Homer Compston until his death July, 1998. They were members of the Assembly of God Church and she was active in her church teaching Sunday School with children for many years. In 1961, she started working for Jane Phillips Memorial Medical Center and continued to work there as a nurse until her retirement in 1985. Pauline loved to crochet and sew and tried to teach her granddaughters how to crochet. She loved to fish. She spent countless hours in her garden and raising hibiscus flowers. She also liked to raise hummingbird vines from seeds and watch them grow out her windows as they would attract the hummingbirds. She loved watching the hummingbirds come in and feed. She also loved collecting angels. She loved to cook especially for her family – they have lots of memories of the good food she would cook!!

Pauline is survived by her children, sons Carl Jay (Margie) Compston, Dale (Louise) Compston, and daughter Dorothy (Tom) Tate, and daughter in law Coeda Compston. Her grandchildren Janice (Robert) Coke, Michelle Inman, Carla (Brandon) Lucas, Michael (Colleen) Tate, Melissa Laywell, and Ginger (Marc) Morelli. Her great-grandchildren Shaun (Bethany) Coke, Cristen (Dakotah)  Smith Hailey Jones (Cody Jackson), Stacey (James) Neese, Erin Coke, Lauren (Rony) Rivera, Jordan Inman (Lacee Radford), Hannah Laywell, Luke Morelli, Baylee Laywell, and Emma Morelli. Her great-great-grandchildren Shyanne Smith, Taylin Daugherty, Jessie Smith, Wyatt Neese, Landon Neese, Gabby Smith, Kyliyah Jackson, Jaxson Neese, Sawyer Smith, and Elena Rivera. Her special friends Mary and Jerry Cox and the caretakers at Medical Lodge.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Homer, her parents, three brothers, Nathan, David, and Paul Maiden, two sisters, Onabelle St. John, and Christine McKenzie and one grandson, Homer Jay Compston.

Honorary pallbearers are Robert Coke, Michael Tate, Brandon Lucas, Shaun Coke, Jordan Iman, and Luke Morelli.

Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 29, 2018, at Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel in Bartlesville with Connie McCray officiating. Services are under the direction of Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory.

Interment will be at Mt. Washington Cemetery in Lenapah. Friends who wish may sign the online guest book and leave condolences at www.stumpff.org.