Carolyn Diane Jobe, was born May 20, 1942, to Shirley Belle Morgan and Kern Luvene Griffis in Kansas City, Missouri, and left us on January 14, 2025, to take her place dancing with the angels.
Circumstances surrounding her parent’s union left her without a father. At the age of 6, her mother met and married Buell C. Clemons, who became “Daddy” immediately and remained so for the rest of her life. Carolyn attended elementary schools in Bogard, Carrollton and Sedalia, Missouri before the family settled in Smithton, Missouri, where Carolyn graduated high school.
After graduation, Carolyn met Leslie E. Hansen and they were married on April 28, 1962. The couple started their life in Sedalia, Missouri before moving to Salisbury, Missouri, where, for the biggest part of her life, she spent as a homemaker raising their five children.
Carolyn was an artist. She began painting in oils, entering several of her paintings at the State Fair and winning ribbons. Several times she was asked to paint multiple copies of her most popular paintings for those who loved them and wanted to exhibit a piece of her talent. She continued expanding her talents into charcoal drawings and watercolors, eventually rounding out her talent into many different media areas, which included outstanding paper maches, wood and metal and a whole host of other odds and ends that were extremely unique, all showing her amazing unique personality. The last 20 years of her life, she turned her talent into creating handmade, totally one-of-a-kind quilts, spending these years of her life creating amazing works of art in the form of her quilts. She was asked to appear, and did, at several quilt clubs to demonstrate her unusual techniques. In March 2024, she entered what would come to be her last art show, winning several ribbons for both her charcoal drawings and quilts.
Carolyn had a huge sense of adventure, skydiving at age 75, hot air balloon rides, visiting haunted hotels, many many float trips and road trips. She was enthusiastic about anything she believed would be fun to do or try. She loved to dance and was never still.
Carolyn possessed a unique sense of humor. She loved to laugh with others and at herself. She was so full of life and creating art that sometimes ended in only the most comical of situations which could and did occur. In later years, she was fiercely loyal to anyone she considered her friend and dearly loved her church and her Sunday School class. She volunteered for many projects, including the Community Café in Sedalia. Carolyn donated her time and funds to any in need, including the Missouri Children’s Home.
Carolyn was preceded in death by her parents, her half-sister Barbara Denhart and her first great-grandson, Gavon Xander Smith.
Carolyn is survived by her children: Rhonda Hazell (husband Vernon Lesmeister); Jeffery A. Hansen, (wife Lori); Lesley D. Pollack, (husband John); Stephanie A. Crisler, (husband Todd); and, Michelle K. Franklin, (husband Joe); 15 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren; her sister, Kaye McMullin (and husband Ken); an aunt; and many cousins, nieces and nephews, her church and Sunday School families, and numerous other very good friends.
Per Carolyn’s request, there will be no funeral or burial services, but a Celebration of Life service which will be held at her church, Parkview Christian Church, Sedalia, Missouri, on a date and time not yet determined.
The family suggests any memorial contributions be made to Parkview Christian Church or the Missouri Children’s Home.
A Celebration of Life will be planned for a later date.
Courtesy Hill & Son Funeral Home, Appleton City Mo.
