Rev. Carol Estelle Froning, 89, died Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at her home following a lingering illness. Memorial services will be 11:00 AM Saturday, November 3, at the First Congregational UCC with Rev. Al Wagner presiding. Inurnment will be in Clinton, Iowa. Survivors include three daughters, Sherri (David) Wendt of Winona, MN, Sue (Bill) Jakubsen of Savannah, GA, Dr. Sara Jill Froning of Chapel Hill, NC; sister-in-law, Genny Conklin; also by five grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. After the death of her husband, Al, Carol went to Aquinas University Seminary in Dubuque, where she received a Master's degree in Divinity. She was a nationally certified hospice chaplain, and was ordained as a minister in the Congregational United Church of Christ. She moved to Pine Hurst, NC where she was a chaplain for Manor Care Nursing Home and the regional Pine Hurst Hospital. She returned to Belle Plaine and was briefly the interim pastor at the UCC church and other churches in the area. She was preceded in death by her husband, Al and brothers, Claude and Dean Conklin. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Belle Plaine Ambulance service.