Pauline was a retired school teacher having taught at Concord College for one semester, at Mark Twain High School for one hear and finished her teaching career at WWHS, having taught there for 35 years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Beckley, and was a lifelong resident of Raleigh County. Pauline was preceded in death by six sisters, Bernice Alderman, Mabel Rutherford, Thelma Wills, Agnes Stemple, Wanda Griffith and Edna Haid; also by one brother, Wilbur Alderman.
Pauline was the last surviving of her brothers and sisters.