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Carolyn Sue Roth (Wysong)

Milford, OH, USA

August 21, 1946 - June 30, 2020

Aug 21, 1946 - Jun 30, 2020

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ROTH, Carolyn Sue (Wysong), 73, of Milford, Ohio, peacefully left her earthly form to rise up to heaven on June 30, 2020 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s.
Carolyn was born August 21, 1946 to Earl and Kathryn Armina (Woodard) Wysong in Dayton, Ohio, the middle of three children. She lived the majority of her life in Brookville, Ohio, a small town west of Dayton. After graduating from Brookville High School in 1964, she went on to study at Eastern Kentucky University.
In 1965, Carolyn met the handsome William (“Bill”) Roth on a blind date and in 1967, Carolyn left college to marry Bill and to begin a career at NCR in Dayton in data processing. They went on to have two daughters, Armina Elizabeth and Elizabeth Kathryn.
When Armina arrived in 1973, Carolyn was forced to abandon her fledgling career at NCR due to the company’s archaic belief that women could not have both a career and a family. She switched gears to the role of supportive wife and mother and fully devoted the early years of her children’s lives to caring for her family. Days were filled with trips to the park and library, freshly baked cookies and pineapple upside-down cakes, playing cards at family gatherings, trips to the lake, and the simple joys of small-town living. Carolyn’s passion for books and reading was passed on to her daughters who became avid readers themselves.
As her daughters grew older and were more independent, Carolyn attended Sinclair Community College to obtain an Associate’s degree in medical transcription. She went on to work part time for several years as an administrative assistant in the rehab department of Maria Joseph Living Care Center.
Carolyn was an incredible advocate for her daughters, coaching them that girls could do anything and impressing upon them the importance of education. After reading an article about the need for more women in engineering, she was determined that they turn their skills in math and science into engineering degrees. Both daughters eventually obtained degrees in engineering, making Carolyn very proud. When her daughter Armina announced plans to go on to law school, Carolyn despaired that she would be just another unemployed lawyer. (Thankfully she was wrong for once!)
Carolyn loved dogs more than most people and had a number of furry companions throughout her life. She even stopped going to church when her minister proclaimed that dogs couldn’t go to heaven. If heaven didn’t have dogs, then what was the point? She maintained her belief that all dogs do, in fact, go to heaven and found peace by placing her worries in God’s hands. Nature became her church and she could sit for hours on the porch swing admiring her trees and flowers (with a special affection for lilacs). One year her husband accidentally mistook some of her flowers for weeds and chopped them down with a lawnmower. She successfully leveraged his guilt over that incident to convince him to plant more and more trees and flowers every year.
Carolyn always had books nearby. Her favorite genres were mysteries and horrors. A perfect afternoon could be spent curled up in her favorite chair, dog in her lap, voraciously reading the latest Stephen King novel. An adventurous eater, it was common for her and Bill to travel long distances to visit her favorite restaurants, even taking frequent trips to Charleston, South Carolina for her favorite She-Crab soup.
In 2008, Carolyn’s loving and dutiful care for her aging parents sadly came to an end when they both passed away just a few months apart. Shortly thereafter, Carolyn and Bill decided to leave their home in Brookville and move to Milford to be closer to their daughter. They welcomed their first grandchild, Violet in 2010 and Lucille in 2012.
Sadly, soon after the birth of Lucille, Carolyn was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and her family began a long and tortious goodbye. Her husband, William, cared for her at home for many years until her condition required around-the-clock nursing care. In a twist of fate, Carolyn’s last days were spent with caring staff, hallways to roam, and a view of the courtyard at the same care center she had worked at years before.
Carolyn was preceded in death by her mother, father and brother, Ronald Bishop. She is survived by her best friend and loving husband of 53 years, her sister, Claudia Jenkins, daughters Elizabeth Roth and Armina Stricklin, son-in-law Taft Stricklin, and her granddaughters Violet Armina and Lucille Dorothy Stricklin.
In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes donations to the Alzheimer’s Association, Circle Tail Animal Rescue, or adopting a book at the Brookville Library (http://daytonmetrolibrary.org…)
At Carolyn’s expressed wishes, her body was donated to Wright State University for medical research. Due to the risks of the coronavirus, the family has decided against holding an in-person memorial service at this time and instead asks loved ones to take a few quiet moments to think of your fondest memory of Carolyn, hold it tightly, and pet a furry friend.

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