Carolyn Sue (Rhoades) Chalfant was born March 12, 1947 in Elk, City, Oklahoma to Imogene and Weldon Rhoades. She passed away June 18, 2012 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the age of 65 years, 3 months and 6 days.
She graduated from Berlin High School where she was a star basketball player.
Carolyn later graduated from Southwestern State College with a degree in Pharmacy. Carolyn moved to Sweetwater, Texas and later to Elk City, Oklahoma where shr ran the pharacy at Humpty Dumpty. She then purchased the Maley Pharmacy in Sayre and renamed it the Family Pharmacy, where she raised her four children. After she closed the pharmacy in 1992 she began working for Eddie Tom Lakey at the Cheyenne Drug and City Pharmacy in Sayre for 18 years and after Jaclyn bought the Cheyenne Drug she would help her on a part time basis. She was married to James Warren Chalfant, Jr. at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on December 6, 1996 and they made their home in Strong City.
She was a member of the Sayre Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her parents and 2 brothers, Grant Weldon Rhoades and her twin brother, Phillip Warren Phoades.
She is survived by her husband, Jay, of the home; 3 daughters, Gena Mae Bryan and husband, Tim, Sayre, OK, and Jaclyn C. Stephens and husband, Rob, Elk City, OK, Brooke Buckner and husband, Dakota, Sayre, OK; 1 son, Brandon Hodge and wife, Tami, Sayre, OK; 8 Grandchildren, Chaz, Faith, Alister, Dylon, Kandence, Wiley, Remi, Tennessee and 3 on the way as well as, a host of other relatives and friends.
Services will be held at 2:00 pm Thursday, June 21, 2012 at the Sayre School Auditorium. Burial will be at Berlin Cemetery under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service Sayre.
Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 21JUN2012