Carolyn Harte Shotwell

Carolyn Harte Shotwell, 86, died Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at Presbyterian Hospital in Matthews. Mrs. Shotwell was born in Asheville and was a daughter of the late Eugene Nicholas and Marion Lucille McLaughlin Harte. She was also preceded in death by her siblings, Jean Bishop, Frances Koch, Lucille Phillips and Bud Harte. She worked with Winn-Dixie Super Market for 28 years and she was an active member of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church where she worked with the Caring Hearts Ministry and was a Eucharistic Minister. She is survived by two daughters, Carolyn Penland and husband, Jim, of Lake Placid, FL and Angela Gray and husband, Mike, of Matthews; sons, Lonnie Timothy Shotwell and partner, A.J., of San Francisco, CA, and James J. Shotwell and wife, Jeannie LeGate, of West Palm Beach, FL; three grandchildren, Jeffrey Penland and wife, Joann, Lisa Peters and Tamara Bullard and husband, Charles; and four great-grandchildren, Angela M. Shupe, McKayla Peters, Sydney Peters and Michael Penland. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated by the Rev. Fr. C. Morris Boyd at 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Basilica of St. Lawrence, DM. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. A Rosary will be recited at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue after which the family will receive friends until 8:00 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Basilica of St. Lawrence, 97 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801.