- Date Of Birth: 1938
- Date Of Death: 2021
- State: Florida
Joyce Carolyn Barton was born in Williston, FL to Edward Lee Barton and Jeannette Barton on January 12, 1938. She graduated from Williston High School in 1956 and from Florida State University in 1960. She married Richard Andrews and moved to Ocala, FL where she became an elementary school teacher at Wyomina Park Elementary School and taught until she began raising her sons, Dan and Dick Andrews. After her sons were older she resumed her teaching career at Eighth Street and Highlands Elementary Schools. She retired in 1984. In 1984 she married Julian Grissom. They made a great couple who took care of each other until his death in 2007.
Carolyn was a tireless worker at whatever she put her mind to. Her favorite activity was gardening.
Her desire to work in the garden did not wane even as she got older. In the last few weeks of her life she was still doing her best to get another batch of pickles done and telling us to make sure the okra was cut every day. She was always trying to be productive.
Carolyn is survived by her two sons, Dan Andrews and Dick Andrews, their wives, Sandi and Garnet, and her seven grandchildren, Cameron, Lauren, Kathryn, Will, Emily, Allison, and Mary.
Carolyn wanted everyone who wanted one to have an education and she supported many in their efforts to do so.
