Pauline J. Baim

Palmer resident Pauline J. Baim, 81, died May 14, 2010, at home with her family at her side.

Pauline was born on April 21, 1929, in Stubenville, Ohio. She became an Alaska resident in November 1951. Before residing in Palmer, she previously lived in Fairbanks, Wrangell, Sutton, Seward and Poker Flat. Pauline was employed as a cook/waitress in numerous road houses and coffee shops between Anchorage and Fairbanks; bookkeeper, business manager for Wilner Texaco in Fairbanks; bull-cook on the Trans Alaska Pipeline project; manager of Senior Housing in Wrangell; and commercial fisher. Her hobbies were gardening, gambling and grandchildren.

Her family writes: “Polly has always been a fighter and a fearsome advocate for the causes she embraced and the people she loved. She was a woman, wife, mother and grandmother who had a heart of a grizzly and a tongue of a magpie. We loved her for both.”

She is survived by her spouse of 65 years Louis Baim; daughters Ginger Baim and Bonnie Feakes; sisters Kathryn Edwards of Palmer and Marie Ksiaeak of Bloomingdale, Ohio; brother Robert Baker of San Antonio, Fla.; grandchildren Candy Felthauser, Debbie Harkins, Kiana Putman, Aurora and Nicholai Hoefferle; great-grandchildren Angelyn and Laura Mae Felthauser; and extended family Weslee Baedif, Jerry Pendergast and Lauren Rickteroff.

Arrangements were entrusted to Legacy Funeral Home-Kehl’s Palmer Chapel.