The Enterprise, White SAlmon, WA., July 3, 2003, page __

PAULINE BALSIGER

     90-year-old Pauline Sophie Balsiger died in Hood River, Ore., on Sunday, June 29, 2003.
     She was born in Urick, Mo., to Richard and Betty Elizabeth (Cox) Hearn. She took her schooling in Missouri and in 1930 came to White Salmon in a caravan on a flatbed truck.
     She married Henry Balsiger in Stevenson on June 10, 1935. She worked at Dickey Farms and Cummings Apple Orchard.
     She loved sewing, quilting, crocheting and flowers. Mrs. Balsiger always put her family first (quilting second). She was an excellent cook and always had plenty of food for people, especially cookies and candy for the children. She enjoyed cats and had lots of them for companions.
     Survivors include her children Phillis Bacon, Concrete, and Henry Balsiger and Joseph Balsiger, both of White Salmon; sister Dortha Kuskie, Stevenson; nine grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and two great, great-grandchildren. Preceding her in death are brothers Murell, Russell, Earnest and Lewis Hearn, sister Margaret Shaddox, son Louis Ray Hearn and husband Henry.
     A funeral service for Mrs. Balsiger will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 3, 2003, at Gardner Chapel in White Salmon, with interment to follow at the White Salmon Cemetery.
     Gardner Funeral Home in White Salmon handled arrangements.

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