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IIn 1926, one-room school house teacher Hazel Thomas resigned her job to marry James Luther Cash and moved to a farm near Hugo, OK where their children would enter the world. To begin her life with the beginning of her life Pauline recorded how she was born "the twins were a surprise - first was Dora Gladine Cash, a blue ribbon was placed in her hair, then they hollered "there"s another one" Glory Pauline Cash and a pink ribbon was put in her hair."
After moving in with their grandparents the twins were raised on both sides of the Arkansas-Oklahoma border in the tiny town of Cerro Gordo. During the depression, their lives included family trips as migrant workers to pick grapefruit in the Rio Grande Valley.
The girls attended high school and played basketball for the Foreman, Arkansas Gators. Gladine played guard and Pauline played forward.
In 1946, the twins were baptized in the Little River along with Joe Bollinger who had just returned from World War Two. After Gladine married Joe in June of 1947, Pauline took the bus to Oklahoma City to finish high school. She moved into the YWCA, graduated from Central High School in 1949 and went on to business school while supporting herself as a waitress at Elmo"s Caf" on Main Street downtown.
Then one day a furniture salesman from across the street sat down at her table and said "marry me and I"ll take you out of this hot place" and on August 6, 1950 she and Max Wolfley were wed in Oklahoma City. The You tube video of "Marry Me" by Train could well be the story of the beginning of their love affair. Their marriage lasted till Max passed away after thirty nine years in 1990. During that time Pauline ministered to children at the Crestwood Baptist Church Nursery for over thirty years.
She is proceeded in death by her husband Max, son in law Henry Poznanski, her twin sister Gladine Bollinger and brother in law Joe Bollinger, sister Magdalene Westmoreland, mother Hazel Cash and Grandmother Mary Emily Thomas and Uncle Rufus"and a host of other dear relatives and friends.
Pauline is survived by her four children Jeannie Wolfley Poznanski, Max Wolfley, Gigi Wolfley Cribbs and Rosa Wolfley Blankenship. Max Wolfley married Brenda Grogan. Their children are Joshua , Audra King, Gloria Flatt, Kelsey, Lindy, Meredith, Olivia and Max III. Gigi married Larry Cribbs and their children are Jake, Brent, Adam and Heath. Rosa married Joe Blankenship and their children are Miriam Boone, Hannah Brown, Lottie, Malachi, Jerusha, Samuel, Glory, Amy , Annie, Ericka and Alliyah. Pauline"s great grandchildren are Achius, Merrick, and Gryphon Wolfley, Ava and Stella King, Alexis and Avinleagh Flatt, Zion and Selah Boone, and Talitha and Isaiah Brown. Survivors also include niece Paula Bollinger Reeder and nephew Bill Bollinger, cousin Evelyn Moore and husband Bobby along with many other dear friends and relatives.
Anyone who has ever known this beautiful woman was touched by an angel. Look forward in the near future to a facebook tribute to Gloria Pauline that is being crafted by her family.
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