Carol Marie Dubar

Carol Marie Kling Dubar left her earthly body on May 19, 2026, going home to her Lord and Savior and reuniting with my father after 28 years. I can only praise and worship Him that redeemed her soul and feel blessed to one day join them.

For those that knew her or had the opportunity to make her acquaintance, she was a sweet soul on this earth. Her one wish for all was to know and love Christ our Savior. Rejoice and give thanks.

Carol was born in Miami County, Indiana to Verlin "Pat" Kling and Marjorie (Waters) Kling on April 11, 1937. Carol is the second child of seven, born to parents that served the Lord first and worked hard farming the land, she was a “PK”, preacher's kid. On May 6, 1961, Carol married Donald Anthony Dubar, officiated by her father Rev. Pat Kling. Don preceded her in death on June 24, 1998.

Carol graduated from International College, Fort Wayne, March 1, 1956. She had longed to work for an airline and travel the world seeking a job with Eastern Airlines as a flight attendant. Carol’s dream realized, she was based for a short time in Chicago and then settled in Boston, Massachusetts where she met Don Dubar who was leading a Greek line dance in the halls of their apartment building. My father literally swept her off her feet! Carol briefly left Eastern Airlines in 1961 to marry and start a family, settling first in upstate New York, where their daughter, Kimberly Carol Dubar was born the next year, April 1962. Eventually Carol would settle in Massachusetts, she would return to Eastern Airlines in a ground role utilizing her college skills she worked so hard for in 1956. Carol and Don were blessed to travel the world and experience a wonderful life together, eventually moving to Tempe, Arizona to open their own travel industry business, Travel Beginnings.

Above all, Carol loved the Lord, revered her parents and loved her family. She was the quiet and steady rock to my father’s exuberant outgoing personality. She often said that he was an extraordinary person, interested in everything and everyone, taking her on the ride of a lifetime. He was the beneficiary of a wife in Carol that showed him the Lord’s love, and an extended family that adopted him as their own. His salvation and his own love for the Lord came through Carol’s own love and the love of the Kling family. Make no mistake, Carol was a force in life, a sweet soul, stubborn for the Lord and simply the best mother and wife that she could be.

Carol is survived by one daughter, Kimberly Carol Dubar Inman of Kokomo, Indiana; two sisters, Deloris Wilson, of Kokomo, Indiana, and LoisAnn Miller, of Amboy, Indiana; and two brothers, Rex Kling of Sarasota, Florida, and Stephen Kling, of Hilo, Hawaii, many nieces and nephews.

Carol was preceded in death by her parents, the Reverend Pat and Marjorie Kling, her husband, Don Dubar, her son-in-law Gary Dean Inman, her brother Phillip Kling, her sister Barbara Hughes, her nephew Kelly Miller and her niece Tracy Miller-Brown.

“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.” II Timothy 4:6-8 KJV

It was Carol’s expressed wish that when next you think of a charitable gift, you consider Samaritan’s Purse. Above all else, her truest desire was for all to know the love of Christ, to have a personal relationship with our Savior, to understand that this redeeming love is not a “religion”, it’s not what man says a relationship should be, no, it is God’s truth and only God’s truth of salvation that reigns supreme. John 3:16

Carol's ashes will come home to reunite with her loving husband’s and together they will create a garden of roses as she wished, to honor their union and to honor her husband’s love of roses.

Praise be to Christ alone for all things, He has done it all, I can do nothing, deserve nothing. Thank you Jesus, quicken my heart, catch me as I stumble, carry me when I faint. I am yours, I am coming. Selah