Sharon L. Carney, 82, of Coloma passed away Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at Rose Arbor Hospice in Kalamazoo.

Services will be held 12:00 noon Friday, October 27 at Duffield & Pastrick Family Funeral Home in Coloma where the family will receive friends beginning one hour prior to the service.  Burial will follow in North Shore Memory Gardens.  Donations in memory of Sharon may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital or Rose Arbor Hospice.  Those wishing to leave an online message of remembrance may do so by using the "Guestbook" link located on this page.

Sharon was born November 19, 1940 in Benton Harbor to Horace D. and Melba Jean (Woodrick) Lloyd.  She was small in stature but her spirit and will were giant in size.  Sharon was a great cook and enjoyed making several of the meals for the Watervliet Airport Fly Ins but what she truly lived for was being with her family, especially all of the grandchildren.  In her free time she enjoyed traveling and was the treasurer for the Experimental Aircraft Association at Watervliet Airport.  She retired in 2002 as a bus driver for Coloma Community Schools.

Survivors include her husband Don whom she married November 21, 1959 in Hartford; two daughters, Denise Thoms of Howard City, Mich, and Diane (Allen, Sr.) Fairbanks of Burr Hill, Virginia; one son Don (Chandra) Carney, Jr. of South Bend, and one sister Pamela (Jerry) Wojtas of Surprise, Ariz.  Also surviving are six grandchildren, Allen, Aurora, Steven, Samantha, Ashley, and Angela; four great grandchildren, Autumn, Brooke, Jack, and James; and one great great grandchild Grayson.

In addition to her parents Sharon was preceded in death by a son John Allen Carney, two grandsons, Michael and Johnny, a sister Marilyn Cotman, and a brother Burl D. Lloyd.