Wells, Carolyn Kay (1933-2015)
WELLS, SMITH, GRAFF, HUDGINS, RICHARDSON, LONNING, THOMPSON, MCCLATCHEY, WADSLEY, BOYD, HUDGINS
Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 9/9/2015 at 18:03:01
Carolyn Kay Wells
August 4, 1933 - August 22, 2015Carolyn Wells, 82, of Storm Lake, Iowa, passed away Saturday morning, August 22, 2015, in the Careage Hills at Cherokee, Iowa.
Kay was born on August 4, 1933, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Paul and Madeline (Smith) Wells. Baptized and confirmed in the Presbyterian Church, she graduated from Cushing High School.in 1951. Then, she attended Nebraska State Teacher’s College at Wayne, Nebraska, for two years but only later graduated from Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa, in 1973 with a B.A. in Elementary Education. Kay had worked for an oil company in Denver, Colorado, and also as a secretary at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake. She had been a resident of Storm Lake for many years and was affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
Kay loved animals, both dogs and cats, talking politics, and traveling to visit her family. She had a heart as big as the outdoors.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a grandson, Davis Graff; a brother, Richard; a sister, Mary; and a brother-in-law, John Hudgins.
She is survived by her three children: Rebecca “Becky” Richardson, of Cleghorn, Iowa, Nicholas “Nick” (Jill) Graff; of Albertville, Minnesota, and Julia “Julie” Lonning, of Mason City, Iowa; six grandchildren: Kristin Thompson, Ryan and Sean McClatchey, Alex Wadsley, Carly Boyd, and Lauryn Graff; one great granddaughter Aria Thompson; and a sister, Helen Hudgins, of Liberty, Missouri.
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