Mrs. Carol Jean Schriefer Coots

Mrs. Carol Jean Schriefer Coots, age 89, of Salem, Indiana, died on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, at 9:46 a.m. at the King’s Daughters’ Hospital in Madison, Indiana. Carol entered this life on October 11, 1929, in Huntingburg, Indiana. 

She was a graduate of Salem High School and resided most of her life there. She was united in marriage to Charles M. Coots and this union was blessed with two daughters, Lea Ann and Sharon and a son, Stephen. She retired after 28 years of service with Dr. Leonard Chasteen, DVM in Salem. Carol was a faithful member of the Salem United Methodist Church and attended the Red Hatters. She enjoyed being outdoors, watching hummingbirds, in her later years she loved coloring in her books.  

Carol will be missed by her loving daughters, Sharon Sullivan and her husband, Jerry of Madison, Indiana, Lea Ann Sandlin and her husband, John of Anderson, Indiana; her son, Stephen Coots and his wife, Denise and their family of Hardinsburg, Indiana. She was preceded in death by her mother, Mildred Schriefer Baker, died September 12, 2003, and her husband, Charles M. Coots, died February 17, 1981. 

Private family services were conducted Friday, December 7, 2018, at 1:00 pm, by John Sandlin at the Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive in Madison, Indiana.  Interment  followed in the Crown Hill Cemetery in Salem, Indiana. 

Memorial contributions may be made to the Salem United Methodist Church. Cards are available at the funeral home. Online condolences, www.morgan-nay.com

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