Carol Joan Samford Craig age 80 of Chrisman, IL passed away at 3:21 p.m., Saturday December 1, 2018 at Harrison Crossing in Terre Haute, IN. She was an elementary school teacher in Chrisman, Evanston and Danville and taught at The Country Pre-school. Carol was a member and past president of the Illinois Retired Teachers Association. She was a member of the Kidley Community Church in Chrisman, co-founder of the Teens for Christ Choir Group, and Sunday School Superintendent.

Services are 10 a.m., Friday December 7, 2018 in Stewart and Carroll Funeral Home in Paris. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m., Thursday, December 6, 2018 in the funeral home. Burial will be in Friends Chapel Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Kidley Community Church.

Carol was born March 25, 1938 in Brouilletts Creek Township, Edgar County, IL the daughter of the late James Roy Orlando and Frances Irene Conner Samford. She married Robert Eugene Craig in 1993 and he passed away March 12, 2015.

Carol is survived by her children: Shawna Lawson (Gary) Heath of Chrisman and Shelley Lawson (Brian) Bishop of Chrisman; her grandchildren Brett Elizabeth Bishop of Chrisman, Caroline Renee Heath of Chrisman and Grace Madeleine Bishop of Chrisman; her great-grandchild: Cooper Bishop of Chrisman; and her brother Dean Allen (Sharon) Samford of Chrisman.

For more information and online condolences please go to www.stewartandcarrollfuneralhome.com