Kay Doyle passed peacefully on January 12, 2025 in hospice with family at her side. She was a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend.
She was born to J. David Carpenter, Sr. and Eloise Katherine Fuller Carpenter in Ottumwa, Iowa on October 4, 1939 and grew up in Ottumwa.
She graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and began her teaching career in Chicago as a kindergarten teacher. She also lived in the Washington D.C. area; Grinnell, Iowa; and spent her final years near her daughter, Elizabeth, in Madison, Wisconsin. Her favorite places in the world were the family cabin in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada and the villa in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, where she passed her summers and winters in her later years.
In midlife, Kay developed her artistic talents and enjoyed many happy years as a painter, with pieces in watercolor, oil, and acrylic mediums. She showed her work in galleries and art festivals, and she especially loved participating in her watercolor painting group in Tortola, BVI.
She was a longtime member of Irving Club, PEO, Art Club, and the United Methodist Church in Ottumwa.
Kay is survived by her daughters, Elizabeth and Amy, and their families, including three grandchildren; and her sisters, Connie Soudan and Jane West, and their families, both of Chicago, and Naples, Florida.
A Graveside Service will be held at 11:00 am, on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 in Ottumwa Cemetery. Sinnott Funeral Home in Ottumwa entrusted with services.
