Carolyn Ann (Clark) Brown

On New Year’s Day, Carolyn Brown gathered her family to say goodbye. She died of congestive heart failure early on January 3, 2026, with her son Kevin and his wife Catina by her side. At nearly 80, Carolyn had lived a remarkable life. A heart surgery saved her life when she was six; a further heart surgery when she was 21 supported her busy and productive life for almost 60 more years. 

As a child, Carolyn enjoyed swimming, diving, and rowing around Collins Pond catching sun-loving turtles who didn’t slip away into the water quickly enough! She was an expert at scooping up newts and pollywogs with a net. She learned to ride on a tricky small palomino named Sandy and enjoyed years of horseback riding on several larger horses, especially another palomino named Jubilee. For many years, she was active with the Lamoille Riding and Driving Club in gymkhanas and overnight trail rides. After a year at UVM, Carolyn went on to earn an Associate degree in Advertising and Sales Management from Chamberlayne College in Boston and a Certificate in Counseling from Woodbury College in Montpelier. By disposition, education, and experience, Carolyn was well prepared for the decades of service she gave Lamoille County Mental Health as a Public Guardian.

Professionally, Carolyn began her career as a florist in 1968 working for Bill Peck, who later sold the business to Carolyn’s mother, Jean Clark. Except for two years when Carolyn worked as a field service manager for Teleflora in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, she and Jean, both talented floral designers, ran Peck’s Flower Shop. For more than 40 years they delivered flowers widely in Lamoille County, and in all weather--in the early days without a delivery charge! Family members of all ages, including her father, Francis Clark, were pressed into delivery service at Christmas, Easter, and Mother’s Day. 

Carolyn retired from Peck’s in 2011. In recent retirement, she served on the Lamoille Valley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program committee--engaging speakers, managing brochures and other publicity, and assisting with attendee registration at weekly programs at Stowe Cinema. 

In her final note to her family, Carolyn wrote, “Because my mobility was limited not only at the beginning of my life but at the end, I became an excellent observer. I also learned that family is everything, and so are good friends.” 

Carolyn leaves her son Kevin Brown and his wife Catina and their two children--Lauren and her husband Braeden Langmaid and Alec and his girlfriend Alysha. Also surviving are her sister Francine and husband Richard Page, and her brother Robert Clark and partner Mary Misseldine. Carolyn leaves nieces Elizabeth Page Calvert and husband Dmitri, and Bridget Page and husband Steven Ashley. Carolyn’s great grandnephews and -niece are Cedar and Ned Calvert and Neala and Ian Page-Ashley. 

Carolyn is also survived by her first cousin Barb Stevens White and by Stevens cousins Phillip, Linda, Bryn, Murray Jr., and Sherry.  

Carolyn also leaves her best friend and boyfriend of 30 years, Mike Molleur, and his granddaughter Katelyn, and Mike’s son Eric and wife Cassie and their children Carson and Macy.

Among lifelong good friends are college roommate Kathleen Fitzgerald, Peter and Sue Kitonis, Doris Jolicoeur, Pam Crisp, Norma Stancliffe, and Dick Archer.

Carolyn’s parents, Francis and Jean Clark, and her uncle and aunt, Joseph and May Stevens, pre-deceased her, along with her cousin Murray Stevens Sr and his wife Carrie and their daughter Julie, and her cousin Henry Stevens and his wife Patty and their daughter Cynthia.

Carolyn’s family are grateful to the physicians who guided her care since she was a little girl and in the present: Philip A. Goddard, David Coddaire, Adam Kunin, Dana Kennedy, and Jennifer Peters. 

A memorial celebration of Carolyn’s life is planned for late summer at the family camp on the Garfield Road in Hyde Park. 

Gifts in Carolyn’s memory may be made to United Community Church of Morrisville’s “Breakfast on Us” program (P.O. Box 475, Morrisville, VT 05661) or Lamoille County Meals on Wheels (21 Munson Avenue, Morrisville, VT 05661).

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