Carol Barbara Stokley

Carol Barbara Stokley passed away surrounded by family on November 22, 2023, in Wilmington, Delaware where she resided since 2014.

Carol was born in 1945 in Flatbush Brooklyn, NY, to her loving parents Clyde and Faye Johnson.  Her family moved to Toms River NJ in 1959 where she was a graduate of Toms River High School Class of 1963.  She attended Rutgers University- Douglass College, class of 1967, with a Bachelor’s Degree in English.  In 1985, she received her Registered Nurse Degree from Ocean County College, NJ.

She was a devoted, wonderful, and loving nurse while working at Kimball Medical Center, Community Medical Center, Country Manor Nursing Home and CentraState HealthCare.

Carol’s hobbies include watching sci-fi movies and her beloved Philadelphia Phillies, reading, listening to folk music, playing bunco with friends, and cooking.  She loved to visit Disneyland with friends and family, and collecting Disney memorabilia.   She was a very big Jimmy Buffet fan, an original “Parrot Head”, attending several of his concerts and visiting Margaritaville in Key West.  She was a mom to not just five children but to the Island Heights, NJ neighborhood. Always providing a warm home to all and having something ready to eat for anyone who was at the Stokley house.   She was a member of the Island Heights Methodist Church, singing and playing the organ in the choir.

Carol was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by her two sisters; Diane Pier and Susan Kreick, her five children; Michael Stokley, Wendi Lynn Oriente, Suzanne McBean, Lauri Stokley, and Sandra Wiercinski, son in laws; Dave McBean and Jason Wiercinski, daughter-in-law Christine Stokley, and her beloved 13 grandchildren, who she loved deeply.