Carolyn McNeely

A time of remembrance and visitation will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday, November 18, 2013 followed by a 12:30 p.m. chapel service at Memorial Oaks Funeral Home, 13001 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas for Carolyn Marie Shoop McNeely, 83, who passed away surrounded by family on Monday, November 11, 2013, in Mountain Home, Arkansas.

She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Marvin Harold McNeely, Sr., as well as four daughters and one son: Pamela Crappel and her husband Russell, Lisa Levy and her husband, Art, Susan Duplantis and her husband Dean who are all of Morgan City and Laura Stordeur and Marvin Harold McNeely, Jr and his wife Sara of Houston. She is also survived by one sister Patty Kubula and her husband Butch, 17 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her daughter Lynne Alison Smith, her father Rex Albert Shoop, her mother Elizabeth Ann Eastland Jinks, one brother Rex Allen Shoop, one sister Barbara Ann Hedrick and one son-in-law Dean Ambrose Stordeur.

Carolyn was a resident of Bayou Vista, LA for almost 30 years. She was the owner and operator of Jack and Jill Day Care Center for 14 years. While living there, she was a member of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority and a bridge club. She and her husband retired in Calico Rock, Arkansas 16 years ago. In Arkansas she continued her membership with the local chapter of Beta Sigma Phi. She was also a member of the Calico Rockers Red Hats Club and a volunteer at her local hospital.

Carolyn loved children as is evident in her chosen profession as well as her volunteer roles of Girl Scout Leader and Youth Group Leader. She was an accomplished seamstress and amazing cook traits that she passed down to her children and grandchildren. She was an avid collector which took she and her grandchildren on treasure hunting adventures. And lastly she enjoyed traveling though-out the United States with first her children and then her grandchildren. Carolyn was a woman who was born and lived throughout some of the most diverse times in history. Living adventures, pushing through barriers and leaving her mark on everyone she touched as well as the world she lived in and didn’t merely pass through.