IN RECOGNITION of Paula Jean DeWitt’s 44 years of service to the local ambulance, the Hiawatha National Bank made a $10,000 donation to the service in Paula’s memory. Presenting the check is Hiawatha National Bank executive officers Jeanene Meisser and James Meisser left through Carlton DeWitt, Paula’s husband to Julie Lee, representing the Glenwood City ambulance. Bank Board members present in the back row were from left James Lindholm, Mark Wilson and Ken Duncan. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
GLENWOOD CITY — The Hiawatha National Bank paid honor to the late Paula Jean DeWitt for her many years of service to the local Ambulance Service.
The bank presented a check in the amount of $10,000 in Paula’s name to Julie Lee, co-director of the Glenwood City Ambulance on December 16th. The presentation was done at the bank with members of the Bank’s Board of Directors present.
The recognition by Hiawatha National Bank along with other funds raised from Memorials of over $3,300 to Paula’s family will be used to help purchase a power lift cot for the ambulance.
Paula Jean DeWitt was Glenwood City’s first Emergency Medical Technician with the local ambulance crew. She received her state license in November of 1974 and spent the next 44 years with the service, retiring in November of 2018.
She passed away on September 14 of this year after a 22-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Her funeral was held at the Glenwood City United Methodist Church and her trip from the church to the Glenwood City Cemetery was in one of the ambulances with an escort from the Glenwood City Fire Department.
Paula Jean was born in Menomonie and grew up on a farm south of Downing in Stanton Township and after being married spent the next 57 years as a resident of Glenwood City.
Memorial money received by Paula’s family in her memory also made donations possible to Glenhaven, the Methodist Church, cancer society, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and $1,700 to the Glenwood City Fire Department.
