Norman
Norman R Paulus
d. April 24, 2013
He married Laura Sebring Paulus in St. Augustine Church in Minster on
October 17, 1953. The couple were married 59 years. She survives. One daughter, Janice M. Paulus, Clayton, Ohio passed away in 2007.
Survivors are daughter Barbara Paulus, Bonner Springs, Kansas and son James D. and Donita Paulus and 3 grandchildren, Emily, Sarah and Nicholas Paulus, all of Russia, Ohio. He is also survived by one brother, William Paulus of Russia and three sisters, Agnes Dershem of Newport, Mary Voskuhl and Margaret Puthoff of Russia. Five brothers and three sisters preceded him in death. Mr. Paulus was a member of Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Newport for 59 years; member of the Newport Sportsmen Club, the Minster cataract Company, the Minster Fraternal Order of Eagles #1391, the Fort Loramie Historical Association and the Minster Historical Society. He was a former member of the Shelby County's Cattlemen's Association and an officer in the Houston Grange and the Covington Teachers Association, as well as a member of the Ohio and National Education Associations. In 1989, he received the Award of Merit for Outstanding Accomplishments in Resource Conservation for projects on his farm from the Shelby County Soil and Water Division. He attended Fort Loramie High School where he was an MVP in basketball his junior year and was a 1949 graduate of Houston High School. He graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He worked at the Monarch Machine Tool Company for ten years before beginning his teaching career, which included Russia, Versailles and Covington schools, retiring in 1985. He also farmed and raised cattle for a number of years. In earlier years, he played and managed the Newport Rockets baseball team in the Western Ohio league. Rev. Steven Shoup and Rev. David Hoying will concelebrate a Mass of Christian Burial on Monday, April 29, at 10:30 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church In Newport. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Hogenkamp Funeral Home in Minster, from 2- 7p.m. on Sunday, April 28 and again from 9 to 10 a.m. on Monday. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sts. Peter and Paul Capital Improvement Fund or to St. Patrick Church Soup Kitchen, Troy c/o Dick Steineman.
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