Funeral services for Norma Pauline Yearwood, 96 year-old Hydro, Oklahoma resident, will be held Saturday, February 6, 2016, 2:00 P.M. at the First Baptist Church in Hydro with Rev. Joe Sanders officiating. Burial will follow in Alfalfa Cemetery in Alfalfa, Oklahoma under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home.

Pauline was born July 17, 1919, in Dustin, Oklahoma to William and Eliza Jane (Leach) Hill and went to her heavenly home Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at Maple Lawn Manor in Hydro, Oklahoma. Pauline spent her early years growing up near Dustin, later moving to a farm ten miles south of Hydro, OK in 1930. While there, she attended Ghost Mound School located within two miles of the home. Around the age of twenty, Pauline contracted polio and was paralyzed for six months. The doctors prognosis was she might never walk again. With faith, hope and therapy provided by a determined mother, she was finally able to walk again. After gaining mobility, she moved to Oklahoma City where she enrolled in a beauticians school. She lived in Oklahoma City for six years working at the National Biscuit Company before working at McDonald Douglas Aircraft Company for a short time. Pauline moved back to Eakly, OK where she worked in a beauty salon for about one year before opening her own shop in Carnegie, OK. This was a short lived venture so Pauline moved back to live with her sister, Cleo Yearwood and help with the housework and tend the youngsters while the others worked in the fields. Eventually, Pauline opened a beauty shop in Eakly while still living at the Yearwood farm. In 1947, she moved in with her parents when her father, William Hill became ill. She still had enough time to continue with her beauty shop and help the Yearwoods, too. She was called upon numerous time to step in and help when members of the family were in need of home health care. She never complained of what it caused in her own social life. When William Hill died in 1951, Pauline moved back to the Yearwood farm. The beauty shop was reopened in a spare room at the Yearwoods farm house. Later, the beauty shop would be moved back to Eakly, but Pauline would be called upon to care for her ailing mother and then her sister, Cleo with a five-year battle of cancer. Cleo passed away in 1976 and with encouragement and support from the Yearwood siblings, she married Marion Yearwood in 1979. She and Marion enjoyed sixteen years of marriage before he passed away in 1995. They took time off from farming the Ghost Mound Farms to make trips to visit brothers in California, Washington and Colorado. Many fishing trips were made in their RV to Port Aransas, TX and Creede, CO. While at the gulf, they scoured the beaches for sea shells to paint pictures on after returning home. Paulines other hobbies were painting on canvas and making squash pickles. Pauline was a long-time member of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, of which Marion Yearwood was a founding member. When Marion passed away, she moved to Weatherford, OK. After her health started failing, she moved first to the Weatherwood Assisted Living Center and then to the Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Hydro. She was a wonderful person treating all the Yearwood children as if they were her own. In fact, she helped raise most, if not all of them.

Those left to celebrate Paulines life are a brother, C.L. Hill of Yakima, Washington; two daughters, Carol Dona Anderson and husband, Bill and Evelyn Blevens and husband, Richard all of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; two sons, Duane Yearwood and wife, Nina of Eakly, Oklahoma and Deon Yearwood and wife, Barbara of Hydro, Oklahoma; daughter-in-law, Carolyn Yearwood of Eakly, Oklahoma; sixteen grand-children; and numerous nephews, nieces and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Eliza Jane Hill; husband, Marion B. Yearwood; two brothers, Robert Hill and Ralph Hill; two sisters, Cleo Yearwood and Ruth Hill Bond; and two sons, Darrol Yearwood and Dale Yearwood.

The family suggests, in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the First Responders of Hydro or the First Responders of Eakly. You may also contribute to a charity of your choice.