Pauline Beatrice Banes, 85, of Western Grove passed away Friday, March 9, 2007 at her home in Western Grove. Funeral service was Wednesday, March 14, at Coffman Funeral Home in Harrison with Rev. Billy Joe Edgar officiating. The visitation was open. Burial followed at Sand Hill Cemetery on Hwy 123 toward Hasty. Pallbearers will be Roy Armstrong, Philip Gibson, Wesley Guyn, Thomas Ralls, Jacob Lee Stewart, and Jesse Young. Honorary pallbearers were William Morris Adkins, William Lee Adkins, Larry Chapman, Jerry Peeler, John Steiler, Jim Davidson, and James Criner.

Pauline "Bea" Johnson was born November 14, 1921, at Lowell, Arizona to luther Johnson and Theresa Marie Earle Johnson. Her siblings were Mary Louise Mallory Earle, George Frederick Mallory Earle and Alice and Agnes Pierce. She grew up in Lowell with her mother and younger sisters, Alice and Agnes. She married William "Bill" Andrew Adkins on January 31, 1940, in Lordsburg, New Mexico and lived in Lowell, and in Ashdown, Arkansas, then settled in Bellefonte, Arkansas in 1945, and in Harrison, in 1957.
She married Dors Cowels of Hasty, in 1960, and lived in Newton County since that time.

Pauline worked for Oberman Mfg. Company from 1948-1960, as a power sewing machine operator, and at Boone County Hospital from 1974, until she retired in 1990.

She enjoyed daily Bible study, reading, drawing and painting, embroidery, travel, family parties, spending time with friends at the Senior Center at Jasper, working crossword puzzles, and feeding and watching the birds. Pauline was known as "Maca" by her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friends. Her first grandchild, Terri Lawrence couldn't pronounce grandma and called her Maca. She was Maca to extended family and friends, as well.

She was preceded in death by her parents, stepfather, Morris Eli Pierce, brother, George Earle; sister, Agnes Armstrong; stepson, Horace Edward Adkins, and husbands, William Adkins, Dors Cowles and Wilbur Banes.

Pauline Beatrice Banes is survived by four children, Lida Adkins Criner of Limestone; Billye Sue Adkins Lawrence of Harrison; William Morris Adkins of Olvey, Theresa Marie Cowles Gibson of Hasty; son-in-law, James Hobart Criner, Jr. of Limestone, daughter-in-law, Rose Maureen Adkins of O'fallon, Missouri, and her sister, Alice Pierce Chapman of Bakersfield, California. She is also survived by 14 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren, and by Mr. Banes' nieces, Donna Hendershot of California, and Sandy Nightingale Baker of Springfield, Missouri.

Pauline Beatrice Banes loved God, family, and country above all else. She is loved and missed by all who knew her and cared for her. If she could say "Thanks", today, to everyone, she would surely do it. "Farewell" to Maca, one of the most noble, kind and gracious ladies who lived.

Online condolences may be left at www.coffmanfh.com.