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A lifetime of inspiration and service in Christian Mission and message was accomplished by Carol Marie (Taylor) Zorn as she departed this earthly life on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, and continued on to her Eternal Life. She passed on to her Heavenly destination in the tender care of the nurses and staff of the Valley View facility in Belleville.
Carol was born on Dec. 5, 1934, in Webster, Pa. She was the third daughter of John Rigby Taylor and his wife, Emily Reher. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Louise Koller and Elaine Rook. During her lifetime, Carol gave birth to three sons, William Adam, who died in infancy; Robert Lee, Jr., retired and living in Mifflinburg; and Paul Logan, working at First Quality and living in his parent's home in Treaster Valley; and one daughter, Laurel Beth, retired and living in southern Missouri.
Carol attended the Webster Public Schools, The Rostraver Township High School, and continued her professional education at Douglass Business College in Charleroi, Pa. with an associate degree in Commercial Secretarial Science.
Her employment began with the Gimbels Department Store in Pittsburgh and other businesses around Pittsburgh. The majority of her employment experience was in The Warren County School District starting as a teacher's aide, and advancing to secretary and then to the principal, from which she retired in 1993. Carol provided continuous voluntary service in 10 small Presbyterian churches throughout her lifetime.
With ambition for church-related labor and service, Carol met and married Robert L. Zorn, a pre-ministerial student attending Waynesburg College. They were married in her home church in Webster on Sept. 5, 1951, and they continued in church-related ministries for the next 70 years.
After they married, Robert and Carol continued to Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh. There, Robert accomplished ordination and Carol provided a home for their family. (Guy Gray and Wally Rummel were also students at Western during this time.)
Tragically, in Dec. of 1958, a son, William Adam, was born to Carol and Robert, but he lived only a few hours. Since that time, three other children were born and have grown to a purpose. Meanwhile, Robert became student pastor at a two, then five-church parish. Then, as is sometimes the practice, the clergy couple relocated to a three-church parish in Mifflin County, known as the Westminster Larger Parish, consisting of the Milroy, Burnham, and Vira Presbyterian Churches.
After 10 years of this ministry, it became necessary because of a growing family to relocate to another parish of two churches in Lake Erie Presbytery, consisting of the Tidioute and Irvine Churches. Carol found employment in Warren County School District.
In these later years of her life, Carol, an artist in her own right, had found a little time to continue her father's artistic skill which she inherited. Her favorite subjects included flowers, children, English and Amish, small animals, and rural scenes. In addition to portraits of herself and her husband, she provided many works of art that were displayed in many schools, churches, and homes throughout the area. She loved female mystery authors and was skilled at doing crossword puzzles.
Carol's painting did not prevent her participation in other community activities, which included serving as a 4-H Club leader and serving on the committee for the acquisition and development of the Youth Park in Reedsville.
Our lives are forever fuller and richer because of Carol. It is no longer either/or; but forever is Bob and Carol.
A visitation will be held from 10-11 a.m. on Saturday, June 29, 2024, at Milroy Presbyterian Church, 321 S. Main Street, Milroy. The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. with Pastor Joy Kaufman officiating. The burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery in Milroy. King Funeral Home and Crematory in Reedsville is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions can be made out in Carol's memory to her church, Lewistown Presbyterian Church, 17 E. Third Street, Lewistown, PA 17044. Online condolences can be sent to kingbarrfuneralhome.com.