Carolyn Sue Tolar Ashley

Ms. Carolyn Sue Tolar Ashley, 73, passed away at her home in Converse on Tuesday, February 16, 2016. Funeral services were held at Rose-Neath Funeral Home - Mansfield Chapel on Saturday, February 20 at 2 p.m. Visitation was from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. at the funeral home on Friday, February 19. Interment followed at the Converse Cemetery. Carolyn was born in Lufkin, Texas, on August 2, 1942. She was preceded in death by her high school sweetheart and husband, Ronald Earl Ashley; her mother, Opal Lamar Payne; and father, James Elder Tolar; sons, James Lamar Ashley and Stephen Mitchell Ashley. Carolyn is survived by one son, Norman Gene “Bubba” Ashley and Vassana of Converse; one daughter, Melinda Sue Ashley Austin and Eric Heard of Converse. She has four grandchildren; Christopher and Cody Austin of Converse and Elizabeth and Jack Ashley of League City, Texas. She is also survived by one sister, Janice Ann Boller of Shreveport and a host of neices, nephews and cousins, whom she adored, and three special fur babies, Tigger, Zoey, and Callie, who never left her side. Pallbearers were Christopher Austin, Cody Austin, Jack Ashley, Wayne Ashley, Ransom Ashley and Bro. Buck Furlow. Carolyn was an active member of the Red Hat Society and North Sabine Fire District. She also spent many years of making hundreds of prayer blankets for Hospice patients through the Ron Ashley Ministry. The family requests that memorials be made to the Caddo Bossier Cancer Foundation and League, St. Jude’s or to the charity of the donor’s choice. The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to Superior Hospice of Mansfield, and to the Willis Knighton Cancer Center in Shreveport. Rose-Neath Funeral Home Mansfield Chapel