She always had an ample supply of Jolly Good soda and assorted snacks available, and her family room was stocked with every board game imaginable. Carolyn's love of young people and tolerance for youthful commotion made her home a favorite hangout for her children and their friends as they grew up. After her marriage to Roger Miller in 1968, summers were often spent on camping trips, which frequently also included her stepsons, Greg, Matt, and Tony Miller - plus an assortment of kids' friends who tagged along. As a young working mother, she provided a safe, secure, loving home for her son David and her daughter Ann, with many visits to Baraboo and Devil's Lake State Park. Nothing gave Carolyn more joy than to spend time with her family.

Most recently, she was blessed by the support and fellowship of the pastors and congregation of Normandale Evangelical Lutheran Church in Edina, Minnesota. John's Lutheran Church in Baraboo, and later became an active member of Midvale Community Lutheran Church in Madison. Carolyn's life centered on her values of faith, family, and friends. Her attentive, gentle demeanor helped her gain immediate trust with children, while her teaching expertise gave them a solid start for their education. She taught hundreds of 3- and 4-year olds during her career. Carolyn had a multi-decade career as a teacher at Monona Grove Nursery School, retiring in 1993. She attended Baraboo High School, then earned a degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1956. Carolyn was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin on August 24, 1934. Miller, her brother Charles Kerndt, her sister Miriam Kerndt, and her brother Walter Kerndt, Jr. She was preceded in death by her parents, Walter and Elsie Kerndt, her husband Roger F. Louis Park passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 5, 2021.

Garrison Keillor read Carolyn’s poem “A Warm Summer in San Francisco” on his program The Writer’s Almanac on July 5, 2009, and her poem “Rose Garden, Summer Solstice” on July 6, 2009.Miller, Carolyn M.

Their music and vocabulary draw their strength from the best that has endured in poetry in English from Wyatt to Williams, and while they are original, they are also as ordinary as bread or wine.” Miller is a Bay Area poet, these are neither New Age nor Language poems. She puts it down in poems that never claim more than they deserve, and in the end they deserve all the attention the reader can bring, for they come as close to beauty and wisdom as poems come these days.

She remembers the past, those she loved, those she failed to love enough. Philip Levine selected Light, Moving for his contribution to “The Editors’ Shelf” in the Winter 2009–10 issue of Ploughshares: “A woman goes about her life she completes those common tasks she needs to stay useful and alive. Ted Kooser chose Carolyn’s poem “The World as It Is” for his American Life in Poetry column 269.

Joy to the World by Carolyn Miller