May 3, 1943 – December 8, 2021
Carolyn Kay (Wise) Kasiske passed away on December 8, 2021 at the age of 78. She was born in Huntington, West Virginia on May 3, 1943 to parents Clifford and Edna Wise. Their home was across the Ohio River in Chesapeake, Ohio. From Carolyn’s written testimony she said that her parents gave their lives to the Lord when she was very young. Then at the age of 12, Carolyn wrote that she was saved in a Methodist church revival and baptized in the Ohio River. In her high school years she was the leader of the Youth for Christ Club.
After graduation from the Chesapeake, Ohio, High School, Carolyn continued to live at home and worked for eight years at a Goodyear Service Store in Huntington. She then felt led to move to the Washington, DC area where she found a job and a good church, Calvary Church of the Nazarene in Arlington, Virginia. And in that church she found her future husband, Larry Kasiske. Larry was in the Navy, stationed in the Washington, DC area, and had been attending the Nazarene church for about a year. After dating for six months, Larry and Carolyn were married on September 5, 1974. Having to change her last name from Wise to Kasiske, one of Carolyn’s favorite comments during her married years, was “I used to be Wise until I married Larry”.
In February 1975, Larry completed his four year enlistment in the Navy. He had an engineering job waiting for him in Houston, Texas. When Larry and Carolyn moved to Houston, they found a church and Carolyn starting working at the church’s children’s day care, “New Life Learning Center”. In 1988 Carolyn applied and was hired for a job at the F.B.I. She worked in the Houston office for 19 years in several administrative support positions. When asked by anyone about what she did at the F.B.I., Carolyn always responded, “I could tell you, but then I would have to shoot you”.
During their 47 years of marriage, Larry and Carolyn faithfully served in the churches they were members of, in Houston, and later after retirement, at Mims Baptist Church in Conroe, Texas. In their younger years, they went on seven short term mission trips to various countries in Europe, Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. Carolyn loved to do sewing projects. She made 50th anniversary quilts for several close friends. And she made thousands of small crocheted crosses that she gave away. With each cross was a written salvation message encouraging the reader to accept Jesus as their personal Savior. Some of the crosses ended up going to places as far away as Israel and India. The crosses were her special unique ministry for the Lord. At the end of Carolyn’s written testimony where she is thanking God for His love, she said “I am looking forward to the day when He calls me home and I can live with Him in Heaven throughout eternity.” For Carolyn, on December 8, 2021, she was called to her eternal home in Heaven.
Carolyn is predeceased by her parents Clifford and Edna Wise, and her brother Charles Wise and spouse Jean. She is survived by her sister Linda Altizer and spouse John. And she is survived by her husband Larry Kasiske, and three sisters-in-law and spouses, Diane and Ron Spilman, Patricia and Richard Roberts, and Janis and Eddie Dismukes.
In lieu of flowers, family and friends are encouraged to make donations payable to Mims Baptist Church, located at 1609 Porter Road, Conroe, TX, 77301, designated for the “Lottie Moon Missionary Offering” in memory of Carolyn K. Kasiske
