Carol Ann (Hoerath) Rose Gray
Our Mother Carol Ann (Hoerath) Rose Gray was born in Bourbon, Missouri to Herman and Elsie Hoerath on May 11, 1938. She was baptized at Concordia Lutheran Church in Bourbon on May 22 of that year. Although she did not attend any one particular church, she was a strong believer in God and Christ, which she professed all the time. She loved reading and studying the bible. In later years, she started watching Les Feldick Ministries on TV, always taking notes, and looking up things in the Bible. She enjoyed that so much and watched every day. Mom had 3 siblings, Herman, James aka "Moe" Hoerath and Mary "Ruth" Hoerath Simpson.
Mom was an intelligent, creative person. She loved to crochet, having learned how at an early age from a grandparent. She made so many beautiful things. Planting flowers in the spring and caring for them was something she loved doing each spring. Mom was great at puttering about as she was always doing something. You might wake up in the middle of the night and she would be painting a cabinet or something. She loved playing ball with her schoolmates in Bourbon and working at the Salvation Army as a teenager. Later in life she learned to play the drums and also bass. Mom and Dad often played music on the weekends at the Moose, VFW, and many places around the Lebanon/Indianapolis Indiana area.
There wasn't much Mom couldn't do. If there was a problem, something broken, or whatever it was she could always come up with a solution. Finding a way around a problem and solving it was something she was great at. Mom used to say "You have to get up every morning and tell yourself, if nothing else, I'm going to do (xyz)”....She said, “even if it was just washing a window. And, no matter what, make sure you do it if you do nothing else, make sure you do that task. Then, no matter what else happens in your day you know that you have accomplished something.” Mom never let the bumps in the road of life get to her. Her favorite saying was "This too shall pass.” Oh yes, can't forget one of her favorite things to do was to go to Bingo with her best friend Dianna Rose who dad married later in life. When they both lived in Indiana you rarely saw one without the other. When people commented mom would jokingly say, " Yeah, we're wives-in-laws.
Carol married Carl Rose and had 5 children, Carolyn Sue, Carla Jean, Cheryl Kay, Cara Lynne and Curtis Wayne. She was also the step mother of Daniel Eugene Rose and Dennis Keith Rose. Married in Missouri, they moved to Indiana about 1961. Besides a few years in Missouri in the 70's she spent the remainder of her life in the Jamestown, Advance, Lebanon Indiana area. She worked at many different jobs, but mostly enjoyed working at Walmart and at Kmart where she worked with her daughter Carla.
She loved her family and had several grandchildren: Sue's child, Eric Roach; Carla's, John Maxwell, Carl Gray, Patricia Lazell, Robert Troughbauh and Adam Gray; Cheryl's, Anthony (Tony) Rose, Joseph Tullock; Cara's, Jason Mercer, William Benge, Quintin Riis, Lucinda Williams; Curtis, James Rose, Nichole Rose. She also had 15 Great-Grandchildren, 6 Great-Great Grandchildren, 3 Great-Great-Great Grandchildren with a 4th one due in a few weeks. Many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. She was very close to her niece Sandra Simpson, and nephews James Simpson and Brett Simpson.
Mom is preceeded in death by her parents Herman and Elsie Hoerath, her first husband Carl Rose and her second husband Duane Gray. Brothers, Herman and James (Moe) Hoerath. Also, Daughters Carolyn (Sue) Roach, Carla DeVol, and stepson Daniel Rose. Also, nephew Brett Simpson, and grandson Adam Mathew Gray.
At Mom's request there will be no viewing. Eaton's Funeral Home in Sullivan Missouri is taking care of her arrangements. Interment at Bourbon Cemetery in Bourbon,Missouri. We will have a small gathering at that time which will be Thursday March 23rd 2023 at 1pm. A life event will be planned later in the fall. Anyone wishing to be there at the time of burial is welcome to attend.