Pauline Joyce Rowe Tooley of Wallace, NC, passed from her earthly life on Sunday, April 6, 2025, while a resident of Wallace Health & Rehabilitation Center.  Born in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois on December 27, 1942, she is the daughter of the late Herbert and Eva Merelina Rowe.  Also preceding her in death is an infant son—Kenneth Valentina.

Left to cherish her memory are husband—John Edward Tooley; children—Scott Tooley and wife Amal of Orlando (FL), Dinah Hoffman of Rose Hill, Wendy Allen and husband Paul of Orlando (FL), Jodi Aikens of Turner (MI), Mark Tooley of California, and Sue Hunt and husband Tracy of Taylorville (IL); fifteen grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren.

Mrs. Tooley was the owner-operator of her own daycare for many years prior to moving to North Carolina in 1993.  Mr. Tooley's trucking business brought the couple to Wallace and they later retired here.

Mrs. Tooley's family will receive friends at a visitation set for 12 noon on Saturday, April 12, 2025, in the chapel of Padgett Funeral Home, followed by her funeral service at 1:00 p.m.  Interment will be held in Rockfish Presbyterian Church cemetery after the service.