JERSEYVILLE - Carolyn Miller Brown, passed away Sunday, December 13, 2015.
She was the daughter of O.L. and Margaret (Armstrong) Miller, Born August 13, 1942, in Alton. She Married Stanley D. Short in 1964 in Jerseyville, Ill. In 1978, She married Paul Vann Brown in Alton, Ill. He preceded her in death in 2006.
Carolyn graduated from Alton High School and is a graduate of the University of Tulsa and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She retired from Jersey Community Unit School District #100 in 1999 after 34 years of service. She was 50 year member of the First Presbyterian Church in Jerseyville, Ill., and served as Deacon, Trustee, Elder and Choir Member. She was a 50 year member of Chapter GB P.E.O. Sisterhood and was a member of the DR. Silas Hamilton Chapter NSDAR for 42 years.
Her body was cremated at her request. A memorial Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at the First Presbyterian Church in Jerseyville, Ill. A service celebrating her life will be held immediately following the memorial visitation.
Memorial may be made to the First Presbyterian Church in Jerseyville, IL or the Siteman Cancer at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
Alexander & Gubser Funeral Home in Care of Arrangements
Roger Cooke
This is a very, very sad day for me. Carolyn went to Milton Grade School and I went to Horace Mann. I didn't meet her until 7th grade, and I immediately developed a huge crush on her. She was a cheerleader, and very beautiful and popular, and of course she liked older boys. I finally got up the nerve to ask her out when we were in ninth grade. (The date wasn't a success, and after that we were just friends.) She met my father and stepmother a couple of decades ago when they were all on vacation (in Mexico, I think!), and after talking to them and realizing how they were related to me, she sent me a very nice note. Then, a few years ago, I heard she had been taken ill, but I thought she had come through it all right. Rest in peace, dear Carolyn!
Jean Wilson (Alexander)
I am so sorry to hear of Carolyn's death..I so enjoyed our jr. high and high school friendhip. We shared pizza parties,slumber parties,and many fun times. Rest in peace dear friend.
Nancy McDonald (Rister)
Was so very shocked and sad to hear of Carolyn's passing.alwa us a very bubbly ray of sunshine wherever she went! U will b missed! God b with ur familyCindy Kodros (Garvey)
This is such a shock to me. Carolyn cheerlead with me and we did a lot of things together during high school. What a nice person she was. Perry Coon's described her perfectly. The big smile and always happy. So glad she touched my life. I sure didn't know she lived in Jerseyville. So close we lived to each other and never saw one another in the last 10 years. A lesson to all of us to reach out and tell those people that mean alot to you how much you enjoyed their friendship. I loved her like a sister. Cindy Kodros Garvey
Dorothy Vonderheidt (Link)
I remember Carolyn from our Alton High School days. So sad to hears this. She was a sweet person.
Richard Skinner
Carolyn and I became close (figuratively) again during our vintage years. I was amazed at how positive she was during her battle and at how active with her church, the DAR, and her granddaughters she remained. I know that many of y'all will join me in missing her.
Richard Skinner
Sandra Dunbar (Czerny)
I am so sorry to hear the news of Carolyn, we went thru from kindergarten all the way up to Alton High, We were in brownies and girls scouts together. She's was a great person and will be missed for sure.
Judy Hershey (Melly)
The world lost a bright light with Carolyn's passing. All of us who knew her loved her. She has had quite a struggle with her health, and I surely missed her at the last reunion. I remember competing in track with her at East Junior High, and her beating me in the 50 yard dash by .1 of second! It was so good to spend time with her at our 50th. We all have had a tremendous loss.
Judy Boyd (Marco)
I am so sorry to hear of Carolyn's passing. We were great friends throughout junior high and high school.We would even visit when she was at Tulsa and I was at Arkansas. Have so many fond memories of her and loved her infectious laugh. I remember shortly after I got my drivers license ,I wanted to drive out to Carolyn's and my mother would not let me. Being the rebel that I was, not hardly, I did decide to walk to Carolyn's from my house on Brown Street to hers in Milton area. When I got there, her mother took one look at me and went inside to call my mother to come get me immediately because I had broken out in measles on the way out there.Carolyn excelled at everything she attempted. We could not ask for a better representative of our class than Carolyn Hope Miller!!
April Meyers (Hamic)
Carolyn Miller was a first class lady! Rest in peace!