Carolyn Cardin

Biography Carolyn J. Cardin age 74, passed away January 19, 2014 peacefully at her home in Toccoa GA. Born in Fairburn GA July 17, 1939, Mrs. Cardin was retired as an employee of the State of Georgia for 25 years but never retired from being a Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, daughter, sister, and beloved friend to people all over the world. Mrs. Cardin served each church where her husband Rev. Arthur Cardin pastored at Friendship Baptist Church, Hiawassee GA; Haddock Baptist Church, Haddock, GA; First Baptist Church, Grantville GA; Cross Roads Baptist Church, Carnesville GA; Mt. Olive Baptist Church, East Point GA and First Baptist Church, Bloomingdale GA. She served as a role model for other pastor’s wives. She taught Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, was active in the WMU, played the piano, and organized countless meals and receptions to honor other people. Her love of mission work was evidenced by her many mission trips that she and her husband organized to many different places in the world, including Brazil and the Middle East. She worked in Thailand most recently where she taught “southern” conversational English at the Baptist Student center in Bangkok. Mrs. Cardin was a regional coordinator for Operation Christmas Child, a mission of Samaritan’s Purse. She sought to make Christmas special to children world-wide just like she made Christmas special for her own family and friends. She graduated from Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland GA. She was preceded in death by her father Howard Jenkins and her husband Rev. Arthur E. Cardin. She is survived by; two daughters, Tammy Cardin Chasteen and her husband Alan of Warner Robins, GA; Annette Cardin Griffin and her husband Leonard of Toccoa, GA; two sons, Eddie Cardin and his wife Laura of Moreland, GA; Mike Cardin of Oakdale, LA; six grandchildren, two great-granddaughters, and one great-grandson; her mother Bessie Jenkins of Union City GA; brothers, Ed Jenkins of Royal Palms Beach, FL; Everett Jenkins of Sharpsburg, GA; Larry Jenkins of Lawrenceville, GA; and sister Judy Claxton and her husband Tony of Dahlonega, GA, and many nieces and nephews. Services will be arranged by Ginn Funeral Home, Carnesville GA where her family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Tuesday evening; and Parrott Funeral Home, Fairburn, GA where her family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 p. m. on Wednesday evening. Funeral services will be at the chapel of Parrott Funeral Home in Fairburn, GA at 11:00 a. m. on Thursday, where the family will greet friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow at Holly Hill Memorial Park in Fairburn, GA. In lieu of flowers the family requests that you make donations in her honor to Samaritan’s Purse, PO Box 3000, Boone, NC 28807; Gentiva Hospice Foundation, 7801 Mesquite Bend Drive, Ste 105, Irving TX, 75063; or The Cancer Foundation of Northeast Georgia, PO Box 49309, Athens GA 30604-9309.

Carolyn Cardin

July 17, 1939 - January 19, 2014