Pauline Jennings

Pauline (Keith) Jennings passed away peacefully in her sleep on the morning of March 4, in Bullhead City, Arizona. Pauline was born on July 8, 1947 in Douglas, Arizona on the very day and year that the UFO landed in Roswell, New Mexico not far away. She had previously lived in Tucson for 15 years, then moved to Benson in 1979, was employed at the Benson School in food services for a short period, then went to work for Security Savings as a teller, and worked there until her health caused her to leave her job in January of 1988. She moved to Bullhead City in 1992. She is survived by Jim Jennings, her husband of 48 years; son, James L (Dani) Jennings of Fountain Hills, Arizona; daughter, Laurie (Chris) Whitehead and granddaughters Jordan and Jenna Whitehead of Brownwood, Texas; grandson, Lance Corporal Ryan Hazlitt of 29 Palms, California; sisters Inez Cautrell of Green Valley, Arizona, Sharon Holly of Tucson, Arizona and twin sister Claudine (Lloyd) Miller of St. David; along with many nephews and nieces. Her parents, Ike and Ada Keith of St. David, Arizona preceded her in death, as did her brothers, Leo (infant) and Bill Keith, College Place, Washington, and her sister, Edna Fairris of St. David, Arizona. Pauline dropped out of high school in her junior year to get married and did not graduate. After having two babies and when they were old enough to go to school she studied and passed the GED test and got her diploma. After she went to work for Security Savings she took several college level banking courses through both Pima Community College and Cochise College. Pauline was chosen as the Security Savings Employee of the Month in June of 1987. She was about to be promoted to branch manager of the Downtown Security Savings in Tucson when her health went south, thanks to a couple of doctors who were PRACTICING medicine, in January of 1988 and she could not work any more. Security Savings later merged with Security Pacific Bank and finally with Bank of America. About all Pauline knew how to cook when she got married was canned soup and boiled hot dogs but she put her mind to it and became a cook second to none and dearly love fixing BIG dinners, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners were most always at our house with her making her own rolls and pies from scratch and doing a fine job on the gravy also. Pauline loved her family, all of it, and the family was very important in hr life. if you wanted to bring out the tiger in her all you had to do was something to one of the family and she would be ready to fight. We lived out in the country a few miles from town and had cows, pigs, horses, dogs, cats and chickens and a huge garden. Jim worked in Tuscon 43 miles from home so when there was a sick calf Pauline would come home on her lunch hour, change into her jeans and boots and give the sick calf a shot of antibiotics then change back to her bank work clothes, wash her hands then head back to work. We still haven't figured out how she got the calves to hold still for their shots. Probably snuck up on them. She had a little red Toyota MR2 that we bought new in 1987 that was her baby. She drove it for twenty years and cried her eyes out when we sold it and bought a new vehicle. It was hard to let it go but she finally did.