Interment: will follow at the Mount Pisgah Cemetery in Gillette, WY
Funeral service for Anna Paulyne Mullins of Gillette, Wyoming will be at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at St. Matthews Catholic Church in Gillette, Wyoming with Father Tom Kadera officiating. Interment will follow at the Mount Pisgah Cemetery in Gillette, Wyoming.
Anna Paulyne (McGee) Mullins passed away at the age of 76 after a short battle with cancer. Paulyne was born August 4, 1928, in Denver, Colorado. Though she was born in Denver her parents Aaron and Agnes McGee homesteaded 15 miles north of Gillette. At that time there were no hospitals in Gillette, so Paulynes mother decided to travel back to Denver (where she was from) to have her first child. At that time the road from Gillette to Douglas was nothing more than a one track wagon road. On the trip they got lost several times and had to ask cowboys for directions. Paulyne and her parents stayed for several months in Denver before returning home. Upon the return home a neighbor to the south Emil Pfieffer asked Paulynes parent to house sit for the winter, so that he could return to Philadelphia to see his mother. Her first winter was spent in a sod house that later became part of the Don Wagensen Ranch. In the spring they returned back to the north to Aarons parents Grace and Grover McGee. Later that year Paulynes father filed for his own homestead northwest of his parents place.
In 1934 Paulyne along with her two brothers John and Paul McGee were moved into town so Paulyne could attend school. When the weather was nice they could travel back home for the weekends. In 1936 her parents sold the homestead and moved to Arkansas for a short time. Not liking it, they moved back within a year and her father eventually started a trucking and sand/gravel business. Paulyne attended school in Gillette and graduated from Campbell County High school in 1946. At the high school Paulynes studies included the Normal Training School. This program was for the development of rural school teachers.
Paulyne married John Ballard on January 1, 1948. They were later divorced in 1962. She then married Tom Mullins on August 25, 1965. They were married for 40 years. Her hobbies included arrowhead hunting, collecting antiques, working in her flower beds, and volunteer work at the Rockpile Museum. She also enjoyed spending time with her life-long friend Betty Lee Johnson. For many years she wrote and researched articles for the Wyoming Historical Society. In 1991 she helped publish Campbell County the Treasured Years. This extensive history of Campbell County documents the early residents and ranchers around the Gillette area.
She is survived by her husband Tom Mullins, of Gillette, Wyoming; her brother John McGee of Gillette, Wyoming; her children, Mike (Lexi) Ballard of Casper, Wyoming; Paula (Johnnie) Waldrop of Medford, Oregon; David (Juanita) Mullins of San Diego, California; Tony (Joey) Mullins of Wright, Wyoming; Sam (Bev) Mullins of Gillette, Wyoming; Peggy (Lee) Isenberger of Wright, Wyoming, and JoLynne Mullins of Agoura Hills, California. In addition to her children she leaves behind 12 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents Aaron and Agnes McGee, and her brother Paul McGee.
Her family has ask that all memorials and donations be made to Hospice of Campbell County Memorial Hospital
Memorials and condolences may be sent in care of Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home, 210 W. 5th St., Gillette, Wyoming 82716 or via the internet at www.stevensonandsons.com
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