Pauline Bristol, age 89, of Stratford, passed away on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at Benchmark at Split Rock in Shelton where she was a resident. Pauline was born in Berlin, New Hampshire on January 16, 1927 to the late Paul and Ethel (Zapotocky) Kurisko and has been a lifetime Stratford resident. She was a homemaker who enjoyed baking cookies and pies, gardening, knitting and spending time with her family. She loved to visit the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Pauline is survived by her children, Lillian Reynolds and her husband Brad of Northboro, MA, Diane Vornkahl and her husband Bill of Oxford, Matthew Bristol and his wife D'Ann of Fort Worth, TX, and David Bristol of Shelton, 5 grandchildren, a sister, Helen Hromjak of Stratford, a close sister-in-law, Frances Kurisko of Shelton and many nieces and nephews, Pauline was predeceased by her husband of 47 years David Bristol, who died in 1997, 3 brothers, Albert, George and Paul, and a sister Margaret. Friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 11 AM in Our Lady of Grace Church, 497 Second Hill Lane, Stratford. Interment will be in St. John's Cemetery Stratford. In lieu of flowers the family requested donations in Pauline's memory be made to the Thomas Merton Center online at www.ccfairfield.org/donate/ or Catholic Charities, 38 Jewett Ave Bridgeport, CT 06606. The Adzima Funeral Home, 50 Paradise Green Place, Stratford has been entrusted with the arrangements.