Esther Pauline Anderson Wagner

Kirkland, WashingtonEsther Pauline Anderson Wagner, 97, died August 16, 2013 in Kirkland, Washington.Services will be at 10:00 AM Monday, August 26, 2013, at Carmichael-Whatley Colonial Chapel in Pampa, Texas, with John Curry, officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Pampa. Arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa.Mrs. Wagner was born November 25, 1915, in Webb City, Missouri. She was a 1933 graduate of Webb City High School and attended the Southwest Missouri State Teachers College (now Missouri State University) and Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, where she graduated with a degree in music and English in 1938. She was a public school teacher in Joplin, Missouri, between 1938 and 1943. She met her future husband Albert Louis Wagner of Tulsa, Oklahoma, at a USO dance at Camp Crowder, Missouri, in 1942. They were married in Rayne Memorial Methodist Church in New Orleans on December 19, 1943. Following Albert?s discharge from the Army at the end of World War II, they lived in Ft. Worth, Texas; Compton, California; and Odessa, Texas, before coming to Pampa in 1959. She was a member of the Pampa First United Methodist Church for 46 years, and also was the church pianist for many years. In Pampa, she was an employee of the Montgomery Ward store for ten years. She also taught private piano lessons in Pampa. Following the death of her husband in 2005, Mrs. Wagner moved from Pampa to Redmond, Washington, to be close to her daughter and grandchildren. Survivors include her son, Dr. Raymond Wagner & wife Cheri of Elbert, Colorado, her daughter, Polly St. John & husband Harry of Redmond, Washington, three grandsons, Richard Wagner & his wife Gretel of Lake Stevens, Washington, Derek Wagner of Elbert, Colorado, and Jordan St. John and wife Katherine of Seattle, Washington, granddaughter, Stephanie Poplaski and husband Joe of Seattle, a great-granddaughter: Zoey Poplaski of Seattle, and a sister-in-law, Elsie Seay, of Denver, CO. Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 1981, Pampa, Texas 79066-1981. The family wishes to thank employees of the Overlake Terrace, Redmond, and the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington for the care and kindness they showed Pauline in her last years and days.