Martha Carolyn Mott

Carolyn Mustain Mott died February 6, 2017, at the age of eighty-six. Carolyn was born in Bolivar on July 27, 1930, to Rev. Claud J. Mustain and Ruth Keeling Mustain. She graduated from Mountain Grove High School in Mountain Grove, Missouri, in 1948 and from Southwest Baptist College in 1950. She married Paul A. Mott on June 9, 1950 and was married to him for sixty-four years. As a proud and patriotic descendant of Polk County settlers, Carolyn served many years in local and national organizations such as Daughters of the American Revolution Matilda Polk Campbell Chapter, Bolivar (Organizing Regent; Colonial Dames-17th Century; James Knox Polk Memorial Auxiliary, Columbia, Tennessee (Life member); and Polk County Historical Society, Bolivar (Life member). Mrs. Mott sang in many church choirs in her life, as well as Bethany College Oratorical Society in Lindsborg, Kansas; Shawnee Choral Society in Shawnee, Oklahoma; and Salina Community Chorus. While residing in Salina, she was a member of the Treble Clef Music Club, served as organist and children’s choir director at Bethel Baptist Church and Bel-Air Southern Baptist Church. She conducted musical therapy programs for fifteen years in area nursing centers. Carolyn was a member of First Baptist Church and a former board member of the Bolivar Community Concert. In 2005 she received the Life Service Award from Southwest Baptist University. Carolyn worked hard, not only in church and civic organizations, but also in her home as a wife and mother of four daughters. She designed and sewed many of their clothes during their growing-up years, as well as their wedding dresses. Carolyn was preceded in death by her husband, Paul A. Mott; her parents, Rev. Claud J. Mustain and Ruth Keeling Mustain; brother, Richard Arnold Mustain; brother, Kenneth Mustain; grandchildren, Christopher Michael Warren and Timothy David Warren; and great-grandchildren, Halley Rae Livers and Porter Hemingway Livers. Survivors are her daughters, Paula Hemingway and husband, Mark, of Denton, Texas, Teresa Kendall and husband, Ray, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Dana Warren and husband, Bill, of Wichita, Kansas, and Anita Robidou and husband, Robert, of Trophy Club, Texas; thirteen grandchildren; twenty-two great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held on Friday, February 10, 2017, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, at the Butler Funeral Home, in Bolivar. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 am, on Saturday, February 11, 2017, at First Baptist Church, in Bolivar, with Pastor Billy Russell officiating. Burial will take place in the Greenwood Cemetery, in Bolivar, immediately after the funeral. Memorial contributions may be made to the Martha Carolyn Mott Music Scholarship at Southwest Baptist University.

Martha Carolyn Mott

July 27, 1930 - February 6, 2017