Visitation will be Monday, October 31, 2011 from 5:00 – 8:00pm at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Funeral services will be 11:00 am Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at McLaurin Heights Baptist Church in Pearl with visitation from 10:00 – 11:00am at the church. Interment will follow at Floral Hills Memory Gardens.
Mrs. Bailey was born August 8, 1931 in Vernon, TX to George Charley and Irene Muller Sharp. Carolyn and her son Richard co-founded “That Special Touch” where her recipes are still used. She served as director of McLaurin Heights Baptist Church Kindergarten for 13 years. During her life she demonstrated her love of reading and learning by establishing libraries at First Baptist Church of Senatobia, Ingleman Baptist Church, McLaurin Heights Baptist Church, and Brandon Court Nursing Home.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 57 years, Donald E. Bailey, Sr; and sister, Margaret Dunlap of Tyler, TX.
Survivors include sons, Don Bailey, Jr. (Nancy) of Pearl, and Richard Bailey of Jackson; three grandsons, Matthew Bailey (Melissa) of Pearl, Adam Bailey (Toni) of Oak Grove, and Andrew Bailey (Jinny) of Brandon; five great-grandchildren, Morgan, Mollie, Andie, Liam, and Ryne; and three siblings, Dorothy Sparkman of Pearl, Barbara Vanderpool of Tyler, TX, and Charles Sharp of Water Valley.
Memorials can be made to the McLaurin Heights Baptist Church Library Fund.
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