Carolyn Louise Hines

Carolyn was born in Deland, Florida to Adam Webster Tenney, Sr. and Ruth Henderson Cox Tenney on August 4, 1934. She went to school at Washington Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. She attended Penn State University for a year and the Washington School for Secretaries, as well as a few community colleges. She married Charles Courtney Hines on April 17, 1954, in Valdosta, Georgia. She travelled the world as an Air Force Pilot’s wife, living in Hawaii when it was a territory, and numerous states, as well as Japan and the Philippines. In her work career, she held several positions, including for the Abilene Texas Police Department and the National Lutheran Home in Washington D.C. After her move to Florida, she worked as a secretary at the Office of Parole and Probation, then worked for 20 years at the University of South Florida, first at the Veteran’s Affairs Office, then in the Counselor Education Department, and finally in the Career Resource Center before she retired in 1996.

She was once a Boy Scout Den Mother, a member of the Masonic Order of the Eastern Star, the Sierra Club, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa, and enjoyed being a mom and grandma. Throughout her life she had many adventures, including water skiing in her younger days, enjoying a hot air balloon ride, canoe trips down the Alafia River, white water rafting, a great love of sailing, and even got certified to scuba dive. She loved to travel and visited her family in Japan, Texas, Alabama, Virginia, and California, among other places. She greatly enjoyed vacationing with family to Jamaica, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, and yearly trips to the mountains of North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. She loved to cook and bake and was known for her kindness, and the “tiny” cookies that she gifted to friends and neighbors.

Carolyn is preceded in death by her parents Web and Ruth Tenney, and her ex-husband Courtney Hines.

Carolyn is survived by her children Doug Hines, James Hines, Vic Hines (Gretchen), Carol Hines-Cobb (Mark Cobb), and her grandchildren Devin Forest Hines, Mark Hines-Cobb, Anna Hines-Cobb, Karl Hines, Court Hines, and Jackie Linsenmeyer (Pedro) and her great-grandchildren Charlie Linsenmeyer and Oliver Linsenmeyer.

A Celebration of Life reception will be held on October 28, 2023, from 10:30-2 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa on Morris Bridge Road.

Carolyn’s family wishes to extend our sincere appreciation to the caregivers and nurses at Promise Point of Tampa Oaks, Fairway Oaks Center, the Teal Team of Hospice, the Melech Hospice Team, and the members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa.