65634_Martha ~Marty~ J._Pauley
MASON CITY — Martha J. Pauley, 58, of Mason City, Iowa, went to her heavenly home on Thursday, August 29, 2013, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, September 3, at Epiphany Parish at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 302 Fifth St. S.E. with the Rev. Neil Manternach officiating. Visitation will be held from 5 until 7 p.m. Monday, September 2, at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave, with a Scriptural Wake service at 6:30 p.m.
She will be cremated per her wishes and inurnment will be held in Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Hospice of North Iowa or the Marty Pauley Memorial Fund.
Marty J. Pauley was born September 30, 1954, in Bradenton, Fla. She was the daughter of Harvey C. Pauley and Mildred (Fraser) Pauley. Marty graduated from Bradenton High School in 1972. She was a graduate of the University of Florida. Marty received a master’s degree in German with a minor in French at the University of Illinois and spent two years living in Germany and Austria she became fluent in German.
Marty began her career teaching in Milwaukee, Wis. She moved to Mason City in 1985 and taught German at Mason City High School for several years. It was there she met her husband of 25 years Curt Nelson. They were married on August 19, 1988, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Clear Lake, Iowa.
She later taught German and French at North Iowa Area Community College for two years.
Marty took a break from teaching and pursued several interests from Freelance Translating to raising pigs and working more actively on the farm with Curt. She, also, worked for a time in Plymouth at the Harmon-Wilde Insurance Office.
Eventually, she returned to school and pursued a degree in Spanish at the University of Northern Iowa and also studied at a language school in Mexico.
Teaching was always her great love and she truly found a home teaching Spanish at Osage High School. She loved the wonderful students and staff there.
Marty lived a full life and overcame the tragic loss of her parents at an early age. She studied for a pilot’s license and loved sky diving, water skiing and received a black belt in karate.
Marty and Curt loved traveling, music and ballroom dancing. Marty taught dancing to a wonderful group of students in Osage.
Marty is survived by her husband of twenty-five years, Curt Nelson, her brothers Steve Pauley and Jim Pauley, her sister Camille Newton, and her mothers, Anne McKelvey and Rebecca Harllee and a very special friend, Monika Huber.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Harvey and Mildred Pauley; and her “dad” Bruce McKelvey.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements: Major Erickson Funeral Home, Mason City, 641-423-0924, www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com.