Pauline B. Seely, Holy Spirit Retirement Home, died Friday, Feb. 2, 1990, after a long illness. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Holy Spirit Retirement Home Chapel, with the Rev. John Wymelenberg, Chaplain, and Dr. Charles Mason of First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2-4 p.m. today at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. The body then will be taken to the retirement home, where further visitation will begin at 7 p.m. today, with a scriptural wake service at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Seely, the former Pauline Anastacia Burns, was born Jan. 20, 1899, in Sanborn, Iowa. She attended boarding school in Cherokee and graduated from Mount Marty Women’s College with a degree in music. She married Merrit Winter Seely of Canton, S. D., Oct. 22, 1922, at Okoboji, Iowa, where their parents were next-door neighbors at Sunset Beach. They lived in Mitchell, S. D. until moving to Minneapolis, Minn. in 1938. Mrs. Seely had been a voice and violin teacher for eight years while living in South Dakota. Upon Mr. Seely’s retirement in 1960, they moved to Sioux City. Mrs. Seely lived at the Clifton Apartments after his death, Sept. 11, 1966. She was a member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, and the PEO, chapter GR. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law. Patricia S. and Sam McMaster of Sioux City; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Merritt Seely of Stockton, Calif. and Paris, France; granddaughter and grandson-In-law, Holly Elizabeth (Jacobsen) and Larry Sales of Sioux City; four grandsons and a daughter-in-law, Harold A. “Alex” and Joan Jacobsen of Lakewood, Colo., Andrew Seely Jacobsen and Michael Winter Seely of Los Angeles, and Dr. Patrick Seely of Los Angeles; great-grandchildren, Kelly and Jeff Sales and Melissa Heston of Sioux City, Charles and Heather Jacobsen of Lakewood, Colo., and Megan Seely of San Francisco. She was preceded in death by her husband; a son, Dr. Charles Merrritt Seely, April 25, 1987; her parents Caroline and Charley Burns, and a sister, Norene Cajocob. A memorial has been established in her name with the Holy Spirit Retirement Home.

The Sioux City Journal, February 4, 1990