When Carolyn Sue Kyle was born on November 27, 1926, in Texas, her father, Napoleon, was 40 and her mother, Icey, was 35. She graduated from Timspon High School in 1944. She married Robert R. Gwartney on October 16, 1944, in Benton County, Arkansas. They had three children during their marriage. She died on June 29, 1966, in Poteau, Oklahoma, at the age of 39, and was buried in Marshall, Texas.

The following from Kilgore News Herald and Ancestry.Com

Gwartney Family Rites Held Today

...Funeral services for Dr. Robert....Gwartney, Kilgore dentist, his wife and their three children were held at ...p.m. today at the First Baptist Church.

...Edwin Mays, pastor, officiated. Burial was in Colonial Gardens cemetery at Marshall under direction of Sullivan Funeral Home of Marshall.

The services were for Dr. Gwartney, 43, his wife, Carolyn Sue, ..39.., their daughters, Melanie Carol, 18, and Collene Kay, 10, and their son, Robert R. Gwartney, Jr. 12.

The Gwartneys were killed in a two-car collision Wednesday afternoon near Poteau, Okla., on the first leg of a three week vacation. There were enroute to Gravette, Ark. to visit relatives and had planned to continue their vacation in California.

The family had lived in Kilgore since 1955. Dr. Gwartney previously practiced denistry in Texarkana.

Dr. Gwartney was a native of Gravette, a veteran of World War II and a graduate of the University of Texas Dental School. He is survived by two brothers and two sisters.

Mrs. Gwartney was born in Timpson and previously lived at Marshall. She is survived by her mother, three brothers and two sisters.

Melanie was a native of Marshall and graduated this year from Kilgore High School. Robert was born in Texarkana, was a student at Kilgore Junior High School and was a member of the Pirates of the Kilgore Boys Baseball Assn. Colleen was a native of Kilgore and attended Chandler Elementary School.

Pallbearers were G.F. Ford, Roy Lawrence, James Harvey, Tommy Traylor, F.B. Cline, Dave Hall, C.L. Barbee, Alvin Wylie, Dayton Walkup, Deane Johnson, Charles F. Dickerson, and Mac Ashworth