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Pictured is Pauline Briney working inside the former Moultrie County News offices. Briney was not only an avid writer and reporter for area newspapers but also a serious public servant that always strove to represent Findlay.
Pauline Briney remembered as loyal public servant
•August 5, 2015•
by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com
This past Saturday morning, family members of the late Pauline Briney gathered at her residence on 304 E. Division St. in Findlay to go over the abundance of articles, poetry, and photos that the former Findlay mayor and unofficial historian had written and collected over her 90 years.
Just outside her home about a block west on the main drag, the Findlay Walleye Festival parade was beginning–emergency sirens sounding as residents sat in lawn chairs on the boulevard–a sight and sound Briney no doubt had taken in countless times before and would have again had it not been for her passing just a week earlier. More ironic yet, the very festival that was once again underway had at one point been established by a committee on which Briney had served.
Served.
A word, or verb rather, of which Briney was not only familiar, but one that these days is attributed to her more than ever.
Briney–Reporter and Writer
“She loved being around people,” described Brett Robinson, one of her five grandchildren. “She loved social interaction.”
For Briney, who was born in Sullivan in 1924, that also translated to a love for church-going, and in particular, her membership to Faith Covenenant Church, for which she was also responsible for writing the church bulletin up until being admitted to the hospital in late May.