Florence "Pauline" Constant

Florence Pauline Dean Garrett Constant, 96, of Parnell, Missouri, passed from this life on March 8, 2025, at the Village Care Center, Maryville, Missouri.

On June 8, 1928, in Sebetha, Kansas, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby girl was born into a family of three boys. Her dad was Clarence Dean, and her mother was Lillian Barnes Dean.

Less than a year later, on February 9, 1929, her mother was accidently shot with a supposedly unloaded gun, and two days later Pauline was adopted by her mother’s sister, Myrtle Barnes Garrett and husband William and brought to live on a farm northwest of Gravity, Iowa.

After her adopting parent divorced, Myrtle married Frank Garrett, and they raised Pauline to adulthood. She graduated from the Bedford Iowa high school with a normal training certificate allowing her to teach school.

She met and married Neil Constant in 1946. Pauline gave birth to 4 sons, Allen, Michael, Kevin and Rodger. She worked as a waitress, homemaker and spent 40 years at the Printery House in Conception, Missouri, assembling calendars and boxing cards.

In 1986 she lost her husband to a heart attack. She was also preceded by her parents, Clarence and Lillian Dean, Will Garrett, Frank and Myrtle Garrett. Also her 3 sisters, Thelma Garrett Morris, Gladys Garrett, and Bernice Garrett, 3 brothers, Wilbur, Leland and Roscoe Dean, her son Rodger Constant, and her grandson, Dennis Constant.

Her survivors include 3 sons, Allen (Connie) Constant, Edgerton, Missouri, Mike (Karen) Constant, Webster City, Iowa, and Kevin (Nadine) Constant, Centennial, Colorado. Her surviving siblings include, Orville Dean, Falls City, Nebraska Wayne (Darlene) Garrett, Altoona, Iowa, and Ann Schimonitz, Bettendorf, Iowa.

Pauline enjoyed reading, crocheting, puzzles, genealogy, gravel travel with her grandsons, and sitting on a porch swing on a nice sunny day.

Pauline called Parnell her home and will be buried there beside her husband at the Rose Hill Cemetery, Parnell, Missouri.

Her funeral services will be on Friday, March 14, 2025, at 2:00 PM, at the Parnell United Methodist Church, Parnell, Missouri.

The family will receive friends at the church for one hour prior to the services on Friday.

The Bram Funeral Home, Maryville, Missouri is in charge of services.