Caroline “Gay” Workman, age 89 of Perry, passed away on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at the Kings Garden Campus of Perry Lutheran Homes in Perry, IA. A memorial service will be held on Friday, November 4, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. at the Carris Family Funeral Home & Cremation Care in Perry. Burial will be in the Violet Hill Cemetery in Perry. Memorials will be given to family and may be left at the Carris Family Funeral Home & Cremation Care. Online condolences may be left at www.carrisfuneralhome.com.

Caroline “Gay” Workman was born on October 19, 1933, at Cooper, IA to Oris Alvin and Pauline Evelyn (Bellcock) McKinney. She graduated from Yale High School with the class of 1950 then went to the Thompson Beauty School in Des Moines. She was united in marriage to Duane Eugene Workman at Grace Methodist Church in Des Moines on March 5, 1960. She worked in Des Moines four years then moved to Perry and worked at Beauty Top Salon with Dora Lewis, and the Woodward State Hospital. After marrying Duane, they farmed outside of Perry and then they moved to Guthrie Center. They moved to Fort Dodge, then to Perry about 1970 and she worked at Granger Manor as a beautician.

She was a member of the First Christian Church in Perry. She enjoyed fishing, reading romance novels, crocheting, and gardening.

In death she rejoins her husband Duane Workman, parents, Oris and Pauline McKinney, a brother, Billy McKinney, and her daughter, Jennifer Hornsby.

Left to cherish Gay’s memory are her children, Debbie Olson, and David Workman, son-in-law, Russell Hornsby, brother, Dan (Joan) McKinney, grandchildren, Craig (April) Olson, Travis Olson, Dani (Kale) Anderson, Brittany (Jacob) Gibbs, and Alex Workman, great grandchildren, Jaden Anderson, Brody Anderson, Brooklyn Gibbs, Ryder Gibbs, Madison Gibbs, Dylan Gibbs, and Malcolm Olson.