Pauline Lucienne Audette Wagner

Funeral services for Pauline (”Polly”) Lucienne Audette Wagner, of Kingston, will he held Saturday, July 17 at 2 p.m. at Kyker Funeral Home in Kingston. Burial will follow immediately afterward at Roane Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Saturday from noon until time of services at the funeral home. Mrs. Wagner passed away Saturday, July 10, 2010 following a brief illness. Polly was born January 8, 1925 in Lebanon, NH to the late Oscar Lucian Audette and Adrienne Demers Audette. She married Theodore Franklin Wagner on April 20, 1950. They were happily married for almost 50 years before his passing in 1995. Polly was the oldest of eight children. She excelled as a student and an athlete. She achieved perfect attendance and her school’s highest grade point average and played field hockey and basketball throughout her school career. Polly graduated from Lebanon High School and went to work in Washington, D.C. as a secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Taking advantage of an opportunity to work overseas for the Department of the Army, she moved to Italy where she met her husband, Ted, who was stationed in Germany after the war. They returned to the states and were married in East Chicago, IN. This became the couple’s first home, where Polly worked for Standard Oil Company. In 1954, Polly and Ted moved to Oak Ridge where she worked for the Atomic Energy Commission and served as a Brownie Girl Scout leader. A year later they moved to Kingston which became their permanent home. Polly’s service to the community included serving on the Tanasi Girl Scout Board (she was a Girl Scout troop leader for 16 years), presiding over the Kingston Elementary PTA, and chaperoning Roane County High School band trips. She chaired the United Way campaign and was a member of the Library Foundation, Friends of the Library, Kingston Women’s Club, Republican Women, and Beta Sigma Phi. Polly was also active in the Christian Science church where she served as Reader, Sunday School teacher, and librarian. She was a weekly volunteer at the Kingston Library and she was very proud to be an Honorary Rotarian. She was elected a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International and was awarded the “Thanks” badge by Tanasi Girl Scout Council. She and her husband enjoyed traveling the world, GOP politics, their children and grandchildren, and each other. Polly was a voracious reader and her crossword puzzle skills were unrivaled. She is survived by her daughters Karen (Roger) Hudson of Murfreesboro; Annette (Chad) Burlet of Hinsdale, IL and her son Ted (Diane) Wagner, Jr. of Franklin. She also leaves behind seven grandchildren: Melissa, Daniel, and Sarah Hudson and Chris, Katrina, Julianna, and Tommy Burlet. Polly is also survived by sisters Evelyn Morse of Lebanon, NH and Annette (Bob) Jordan of Enfield, NH, brothers Ed Audette and Louis (Marjorie) Audette of Lebanon, NH, and Oscar (Lillian) Audette, Jr. of Meriden, NH, as well as many cousins, nieces, and nephews. In lieu of flowers, Polly requested that memorials be made to the Kingston Public Library Book Fund, the Kingston Rotary Club Paul Harris Fellowship Scholarship, the Christian Science Society of Oak Ridge, or the Tanasi Girl Scout Council.

Pauline Lucienne Audette Wagner

January 8, 1925 - July 10, 2010