Esther Caroline

Austintown: Funeral Services will be held at 12 noon on Monday Dec. 15, 2014 at Lane Family Funeral Homes, Mineral Ridge Chapel for Esther Caroline, 87, who died early Saturday morning at Hospice House in Poland. Esther was born March 20, 1927 in Perryopolis, PA, the daughter of the late Joseph and Goldie (Houston) Darby. Mrs. Caroline enjoyed collecting donations for the American Heart Association and working the poles on election day. She will be missed by her three children Mary Jean (Don) Swauger, Alan Caroline and Norma Caroline all of Austintown, her grandchildren Timothy, Steve and John Caroline, George, Donald and Brian Swauger, Laura and Sharon Caroline, Jennifer O'Brien, Byron Harnishfeger IV, Matthew and Catie Caroline, 20 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren, and sister Elma Beatty as well as several nieces and nephews who were very special to her. She was preceded in death by her husband William A. Caroline Sr., whom she was married to for 61 years, sons William Caroline Jr., and Charles Caroline, granddaughter Adele Harnishfeger, great-great-granddaughter Julie Caroline and siblings Don, Dorothy, Ralph and Paul Darby. Family and friends may call on Monday Dec. 15, 2014 from 10am until the time of services at 12 noon at Lane Family Funeral Homes, Mineral Ridge chapel.