Carolyn LaFaughn Bolton
April 13, 1930 - July 9, 2023
Carolyn LaFaughn Bolton, 93, passed away Sunday, July 9, 2023, at Smith County Memorial Hospital after an accident at her home.
Faun was born on April 13, 1930, the daughter of Lasher and Ethel (Russell) Kelley.
On February 24, 1951, she married James C. “Dede” Bolton in Smith Center, KS. To this union they were blessed with three children, James Lyle, Robert Fletcher, and Vicki Lynn.
Faun was much loved by family and friends. She was an avid game player, bingo being one of her favorites along with pinochle, spinner, and various other games of chance. She loved bowling, golf, garage sales, and traveling.
Dede and Faun traveled to all 50 states with a trip to Bermuda thrown in. Las Vegas was always a favorite destination.
Faun was always busy with some project, be it painting, crafting, cooking, being a wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, great grandmother, friend or confident to everyone. A recent highlight was going to Pawnee City, Nebraska with nieces Nancy and Chris and nephew-in-law Ron to bury her sister’s ashes and visit her parent’s gravesite.
She always wore a smile, always looking to cook a meal, make a bed for friends and family or help in any way she could.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Lasher and Ethel Kelley, an infant brother Donald Kelley, three sisters, Ila “Pat” Gillian, Shirley Husson and Beverly Martin and her husband Dede Bolton.
Faun is survived by her three children, James Lyle Bolton, Robert Fletcher (Lisa) Bolton all of Smith Center, Vicki Conaway of Wichita; seven grandchildren, Heather McKean and husband Kent, Ryan Bolton and wife Sam, Shelby Bolton, Trevor Etie and wife Abbey, Cole Conaway and significant other Maranda Benjamin, Chris Callihan, and Melannie Callihan and 11 great-grandchildren, Kobyn, Brekyn, Cadence, Savannah, A.J., Edisyn, Bankston, Gavin, Brandon, Ethan, and Olivia and lots of cousins too numerous to mention.
A celebration of Faun’s life will be held at 10:30 a.m., Monday, July 17, 2023, at All Faiths Funeral Chapel, 113 S. Madison St., Smith Center, KS. There will not be a public visitation as cremation was chosen. Inurnment will take place in Fairview Cemetery, Smith Center, KS.
Memorials may be given to the Smith County Fire Department and sent in care of the funeral chapel.