Carolyn Sue Pender Conrad, 52; of Madison

Funeral services for Carolyn Sue Pender Conrad, 52, of Madison, will be at 11 a.m. at Morgan & Nay Funeral Centre, 325 Demaree Drive, Madison, with interment to follow at Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery. She died Saturday, July 12, 2008, along with her husband, in a motorcycle accident on State Road 421 near Versailles.

She was born Sep. 15, 1955, in Madison, to Earl Lee & Mary B. Buchanan Pender. She was raised and resided all of her life in Madison. She was a graduate of Madison High School. She was a former waitress at the former Madison Country Club. She had been employed with Madison Moose Lodge 765, where she cooked and managed the kitchen for ten years. She had last worked as the soda fountain manager at the former Perry & Dunbar Drug Store in downtown Madison. She was a member of Jefferson Post 9, of the American Legion and the Madison Moose Lodge 765. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in downtown Madison. She enjoyed spending time in Ft. Myers, Florida with her husband. She enjoyed dancing, socializing, painting and decorating and playing golf .

Survivors include her loving daughter, Wendy Abbott Copeland and her husband, Brian, of Lexington; loving mother, Mary B. Buchanan Pender Shaffer, of Madison; step-son, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeremy S. Conrad and his wife, Maria, stationed at RAF Lakenheath, England; sisters, Cindy Pender Anderson and husband, Eddie, of Nabb, and Cathy Pender Abbott, of Hanover; brothers, Jack Fisher and wife, Ellana, and Charles Pender and wife, Phyllis, all of Madison; granddaughter, Marketta Abbott; step-grandchildren, Jeremy and Cory Copeland and Skyler Conrad; and several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and other relatives.

She was preceded in death by her father, Earl Lee Pender, who died in February 1979.

Visitation will be at the funeral home from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 17, and from 9 a.m. until time of service Friday.

The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to Vanderbilt Veterans Administration Hospital. Cards are available at the funeral home.

Online condolences may be made at morgan-nay.com.