Carolyn N. Vint

Carolyn N. Vint, 91, of Russellville, died Saturday, September 29, 2012, at North Cypress Medical Center in Cypress, Texas. Carolyn was born October 3, 1920 to Carl Albert and Faye Taylor Norris in Carthage, Indiana. Carolyn was ahead of her time, striking out for New York City and living at the Barbizon Hotel for Women where all the glamorous young career women lived at the time. She worked modeling and as a secretary but was most proud of her job as a hostess on the Penn Central train that ran between New York and Philadelphia. For fun she and a group of young women boarded an oil tanker to spend a week in Aruba where there were several 100 single American men working for Standard Oil of New Jersey. That's where she and her husband to be met, carried on a long distance romance and married in 1950. She then lived nearly two decades in Seroe Colorado, Aruba raising her family, running an island tour business with her two best friends. She made many lifelong friends in Aruba and they would write, talk, and visit one another regularly through the years after they moved back to the U.S. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and The Eastern Star. In Aruba she served as church organist and pianist for the Lago Community Church. When the family returned to the States, she served as organist and pianist for Central Presbyterian Church in Russellville. She and her husband established, owned and operated the original Chicken Mart in Russellville. Carolyn's grandchildren and great-grandchildren were the light of her life. She was a loving mother and had a lifelong passion for music, friends, fashion, and travel. She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Robert H. Vint Jr. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Dr. David Hicks of Little Rock, her two sons and daughters-in-law, Robert H. Vint III and wife Kathleen Vint of Coppell, Texas, and Richard Clark Vint, J.D., M.B.A. and wife Patricia Snyder Vint of Cypress, Texas. She is also survived by her brother, Frederick Norris of Bakersfield, California, her six grandchildren Brandon and Catherine Hicks, Sarah and Christina Vint, and Austin and Dylan Vint, as well as two great-grandchildren Abigail and Tyler Hicks, her niece, Cynthia Giumarra and her nephew, John Norris. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, October 5, 2012 at the Central Presbyterian Church, officiated by the Rev. Bryan Brock. Burial will be at Rest Haven Memorial Park, by Shinn Funeral Service of Russellville. The family will receive friends on Thursday evening from 6 to 7 p.m. at Shinn Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Central Presbyterian Church College Scholarship for Music, 400 West Main Street, Russellville, Arkansas 72801. The online obituary and guestbook will be available at www.shinnfuneral.com.