Lavern Caylor Blue

Lavern Caylor Blue, past away August 12, 2024. She was born May 29, 1927 in Sunnyside, KY, grew up on a farm in Bowling Green, KY, and moved to town when she started high school. She loved to visit her "old Kentucky home" and definitely maintained her southern accent her whole life! After high school she worked for an optometrist and attended Western Kentucky University where she met Colon Blue who she would marry 3 months later.

In 1950 they moved to Jacksonville, FL. It was there that they started their family. 1965 brought another move. This time to Clearwater. During the years while their children were young Lavern worked as a volunteer in the schools and church staying very involved with all the family activities.

Lavern was a loving and supportive wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She supported her children in their sports, attending baseball games, band performances/parades, piano recitals, plays, school activities, church camps, and school endeavors, and she loved to go shopping/lunch just to spend time together.

She often took her grandchildren to feed the neighborhood horses carrots and apples, loved to play catch, played with cars and building blocks, card games and created & built many, many "houses of blankets" with them. Lavern loved her Rays baseball team, watching their games (even re-runs) until her last days.

She loved and cared for Colon, her husband of 53 years, through his extended illness. When he was no longer able to verbally express himself, they figured out their own "language" and were able to continue to communicate together. They would "attend" church via TV long before Covid and online church became popular - again, finding a way to carry on together. She would read the Bible to him. One of their favorite and affirming verses being the 23rd Psalm.

For many years she worked as Financial Secretary for her church in Largo, FL and later for the Suncoast Baptist Association supporting many churches in the area.

She was loved and respected by all.

Lavern was challenged by dementia later in life, forgetting quite a bit, but still maintaining her spirit and feistiness. She would forget many things but she was able to remember her children up until the end, which was truly a blessing! She was so loved and will be greatly missed!

She was preceded in death by her, father, Otis Feral Caylor; mother, Winnie Graham Caylor; brother, Marion Graham Caylor; sister, Margaret Smith Williams; and her beloved husband, Daniel Colon Blue. Lavern is survived by her children, Alice Blue, David Blue (Jan), Nancy Duren (Dave); grandchildren, Chris Blue (Kristen), Mike Blue (Jeanette), Katie Blue, Parker Duren, Christian Duren; and great-grandchildren, Corbin, Cambrilyn, Hayley, Mikey, Cole, Trinity.

A visitation will be held on Saturday, September 14, 2024 from 10am – 11am with the funeral service follow at 11am, Serenity Funeral Home, 13401 Indian Rocks Road, Largo, Florida 33774. Lavern will be laid to rest at Serenity Gardens Memorial Park in Largo, Florida.