Funeral services for Carolyn Elise Maranto Ford, 81 of Marshall will be held at 2 pm, Saturday, April 2, 2016 at Eastern Hills Church of Christ with D.W. McLendon and Keith Hodges officiating. Private family burial will follow. A visitation will be held from 1-2 pm at the church prior to the service.

Carolyn Elise Maranto Ford was born in Marshall, Texas on December 28, 1934, the daughter of John Cosmos Maranto and Edith Irene Covey Maranto. On April 3, 1953 she married David Ford. Carolyn loved Jesus and her church. She also loved sewing, traveling with friends and sitting on her porch at Caddo Lake sipping coffee and tossing a ball to her little dog, Lulu.

Surviving Carolyn are her husband of 63 years, David; six children, Davlyn Hollingshead and husband Paul, Mendy Slone and husband Edd, Scotty Ford and wife Jennifer, Skip Ford and wife Cheryl, Amy Brumfield and husband David and Marti Ford; grandchildren, Jared Hollingshead and wife Lena, Josh Hollingshead and wife Cassie, Erin Garcia and husband Willy, Ashley Bond and husband Craig, Caylin Fisher and husband Kody, Jessica Mercer and husband James, Holly Cargill and husband Marcus, Catey Williamson and husband Josh, Jamey Sterrett and wife Ashley, Zachary Brumfield and wife Sarah, Noah Brumfield and wife Heather, Katelyn Dalton and husband Ryan, Lauren George and husband Eric, Emily Bayliss, and Wesley Berry and 16 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her mother, father, her beloved sister, Martha Rose Feurtado and her dear brother, J.C. Maranto.

Serving as pallbearers will be Zachary Brumfield, Noah Brumfield, Josh Hollingshead, Jared Hollingshead, Wesley Berry and Willy Garcia.