Carolyn Ann Stefanov

Our Mother. There are several of you in our life who were fortunate to know and experience the true “Carolyn Effect’. Mom never met a stranger, as everyone over the years Jeff and I would bring home, can attest to. Let’s just say, if you left her house hungry, it was your fault. She always went way beyond to make you feel at home and part of our family. She most definitely was the best cook to ever live.

Our Mother, best known of her love of our Lord Jesus Christ. She was a Prayer Warrior. She knew how to reach the throne of our Almighty God; obedient to the Holy Spirit. We had a room downstairs at the house in Evergreen Hills that was a cellar, but it was best known as the “War Room’, where she would fall on her knees before God as she was led by the Holy Spirit to fervently pray for whatever or whoever God laid upon her heart. Hearing her pray many, many times as she was closed up in that dark room for hours, will forever be my best memory of our mother as I have grown up and truly realized her faithfulness to God and the calling upon her life. My husband nicknamed her “The Wolf’ over the years. Whenever we needed prayer, he would say ‘we need to get The Wolf on that’.

Even though our mother lost her memory, she never forgot our God. When she would close her eyes, she was always saying “thank you Jesus”. Even the moment before she took her last breath, I could see her try to mouth the words ‘thank you Jesus’ as I was saying it out loud myself.

Our mother cherished her family. She loved having the family around and the many laughs that were had at all our get-togethers. Mom was quite comical herself, even though she was considered the most serious between her and dad. Everyone knows dad was the clown of the family. We did have a few laughs over the past couple days as we gathered around her bed. I’m most certain she heard it, and her heart was full.

Our Mother was just so wonderful. The Matriarch of this family, as a dear friend said, ‘leaves a legacy of all legacies’.

There will be a funeral service held on Friday, October 10th at Waybright Funeral Home at 1p.m. with pastor Chris Skeens officiating. Visitation will be from 11a.m. until the time of the service and burial will follow in the Mnt. Zion Cemetery in Roane Co. Memories and condolences may be sent to the family by visiting waybrightfuneralhome.com