Pauline E. Marcou, 84, Lisbon, NH, died after a period of failing health on Wednesday January 4, 2023, at Cottage Hospital in Woodsville. She was born in Walden, VT to John & Elenora (Hughes) McPherson on October 6, 1938, the sixth of seven children. The family moved to Lyman, NH when she was very young, and she attended the one room school house in Lyman with her siblings.
Pauline entered the workforce after school and held several jobs throughout her life, working until the age of 81, when her health would no longer allow it. She worked at Ogontz as a teenager, in the Lisbon Shoe factory, New England Wire Mill, White Mountain Stitching, and in the kitchen and housekeeping at the Lafayette Center in Franconia until her "retirement". She continued to work as a housekeeper in peoples homes, at one time serving 16 local families, finally retiring for real from Home Depot in the garden department.
Pauline enjoyed traveling, visiting Branson, MO, Nashville, TN, and many trips to Maine with family in the late spring and early fall when there weren't so many people around. She loved roller skating at The Blue Echo, snow-machining, and spending time with her extended family on holidays and summer cook-outs.
Pauline is predeceased by her parents, two brothers, Herbert McPherson, and Allan McPherson; a sister, Bernice Bunnell; and sister-in-law and best friend, Roberta McPherson. She is survived by a brother Richard "Mitch" McPherson, of Lisbon; two sisters, Marjorie Blodgett and her husband Bill of Littleton, and Betty Dube and her husband Mark of Lisbon; special nieces & nephews, Diana Caswell, Donna and Larry Hubbard, Penny and Dale Colby, Ron and Cheryl Wilkins, and Ron and Julie Hubbard, a sister-in-law Beatrice McPherson, as well as several nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends, all of whom were special to her.
Those who wish may make donations in memory of Pauline Marcou to Riverside Animal Rescue in Lunenburg, VT at www.riversideanimalrescue.org/howtohelp
Pauline will be buried in the family lot in Lyman, NH in a private family service.