Pauline Lybarger Keithley, 94, of Bowling Green, Missouri, entered into her next life on Wednesday December 20, 2023, in Bowling Green.

Memorial services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday January 5, 2024, at Myers Funeral Home in Middletown. Burial will follow in Fairmount Cemetery, Middletown.

Visitation will be from 12 p.m. to service time at the funeral home.

Pauline was born October 18, 1929, in Ashley, Missouri. She was the daughter of James Albert and Gertrude (Hickman) Lovelace. On June 8, 1947, in Bowling Green, she married Henry Ford Lybarger who preceded her in death on May 11, 1993. She then married Paul S. Keithley on July 1, 1995, in Louisiana, Missouri, who also preceded her in death on July 24, 2000.

In her younger days Pauline worked at the garment factories in Vandalia and Wellsville, Missouri. She had worked at Gamma Road Nursing Home and was once named employee of the month. She later was a homemaker and she loved to shop anywhere and everywhere. She was a collector of everything. She was a member of the Cowboy Church and Farmers and Farmerettes Club of Farmer, Missouri.

Pauline was a very active person, she always had "places to go and people to see". She loved to travel, and had been on several mission trips, in and out of the country with her sister Susie and niece Debbie. She enjoyed spending time with family and friends.

She is survived by one son, Paul Alan Lybarger, of Bowling Green; one daughter-in-law, Dina Lybarger of Russellville, five grandchildren, Kyle Lybarger (Dawn), of Bowling Green, Tara Horton (DJ), of Bowling Green, Cody Lybarger (Lacey), of Mexico, Joshua Oligschlaeger, of Middletown, and Destiny Cook (Jeremy), of Centertown; six great-grandchildren, Daylyn, Austin, Kale, Ryan, Jackson, and Carter; one great-great-grandchild, Paisley; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands; one son, David Lybarger; three sisters, Claudine Lybarger (who was her twin), Virginia Berger, and Velma Sue Leverett; and three brothers-in-law.

Memorials may be given to the Middletown Cemetery Association. They may be sent in care of Myers Funeral Home, 203 E. Bates Street, Wellsville, MO 63384.