When I come to the end of the day

And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little, but not too long
And not with your head bowed low.
Remember the love that we once shared-
Miss me, but let me go.

For this is a journey we all must take
And each must go alone.
It’s all a part of the Maker’s plan,
A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart
Go to the friends we know
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds-

Miss me, but let me go.

   Beulah Elizabeth (Mauk) Pulis, 92, of Centralia, died at 4:55 p.m., March 20, 2003, at her home.

Funeral services will be held on Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 2 p.m. at Pickering Funeral Home with Rev. Arthur Griffin officiating. Visitation will be on Saturday from 5 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in Centralia Cemetery.

Mrs. Pulis was born on June 27, 1910, in Jasper County near Joplin, the daughter of James Wesley and Belinda Kathryn (Musick) Mauk. On June 23, 1928, she married Arthur Birch Pulis, who preceded her in death on March 27, 1981.

Survivors include four daughters, Lola Slater, Auxvasse, Lois Blair, Mexico, Joyce Schwartz and husband Norman, Boonville, and Patsy Hunter and husband Robert, Centralia; two sons, Rev. Wesley Pulis and wife Donna, Concordia, and Earl Pulis and wife Winonia, Centralia; 23 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great- grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, a daughter, Marylon Hope Pulis, two sisters, Ethel Woolfolk and Myrtle June Mauk, an infant brother and one grandson, Henry Blair, preceded her in death.

The family suggests memorial gifts be sent to the American Heart Association.

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