Lorene Caulk of Campbellsville, daughter of the late Thomas Close and Alice Hudgins Close, was born December 31, 1932, in Green County, Kentucky. She died Friday, July 7, 2017 in Campbellsville. Age: 84
She professed faith in Christ and was a member of Campbellsville Baptist Church.
Lorene was former owner of Little People Daycare. She was a teacher’s aid at the first kindergarten program at Campbellsville Independent School and had worked as a childcare provider for over fifty years.
She united in marriage to Bobby Caulk February 10, 1949. He preceded her in death June 28, 2008.
She is survived by two sons and three daughters: Doug Caulk and wife, Patty, Cheryl Magers and husband, Gary, Jeanne Brown and husband, E.G ., Chris Caulk and Libby Caulk of Campbellsville; eight grandchildren: Casey Graves and husband, David of Lexington, Carrie Caulk of Cincinnati, Ohio, Kristen Brockman of San Francisco, California, Emily Caulk, Alice Gaines, Vivian Grace Caulk of Campbellsville, Truman Caulk of Shelbyville and Jessica Bohanon and husband, Eric of Louisville; eight great grandchildren: Cooper Bohanon, Jillie Bohanon, Reed Graves, Clay Graves, Braxton Tucker, Darcy Parker, Scarlett Parker and Hannah Smith; one sister and one brother: Marilyn Sue Holmes of Campbellsville and Russell Close and wife, Fay Carol of Tuscan, Arizona; several nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Steve Allen Caulk; a granddaughter, Kelsi Brown; ten sisters and two brothers: Phyllis Milby, Lula Rae Mitchell, Faye Sallee, Marcella Close, Dean Close, Bobby Close, Wanda Stone, Dorothy Davis, Frances Benningfield, Betty Chick, Nancy Druin and Helena Warren.
VISITATION: 5:00 – 8:00 P.M. Monday, July 10, 2017 at Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home
FUNERAL SERVICE: 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home by Rev. Ken Forman
BURIAL: Brookside Cemetery
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