Carol Jean Laux

On Sunday August 4, Carol Jean Laux, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, was given an invitation to the party of a lifetime. Though she was brokenhearted to leave behind her loved ones on earth, the opportunity to meet her savior and be reunited with her sisters and parents in the Kingdom of Heaven was more than she could resist. So she shrugged off the chains that heart disease and stroke had held on her for too long and took the faithful leap.

Carol was born in Appleton on July 5, 1949 to Raymond and Doris Noel (Wilz) and grew up in Appleton. In 1969 Carol married Michael Laux, who had swept her off her feet and onto the back of his motorcycle in high school. Together Carol and Mike made a home in the country and raised their two daughters, Heather and Nicole. Carol loved to bake, grow flowers and tomatoes, play volleyball and shop. Trips “Up North” were the highlight of the Summer, where Carol and her family made many memories camping at Buffalo Lake in Woodruff, and eventually purchased a seasonal place on Arrowhead Lake that they were blessed to enjoy together for over 23 years. Carol was called to the Northwoods permanently in June to enjoy her final months as a resident at Rennes Skilled Nursing in Rhinelander. Carol’s family would like to express their deepest gratitude for Amy with Compassus Hospice and Amber at Rennes — caregivers like Amy and Amber are God’s angels on earth.

Carol was full of so much love for her five grandchildren Jake, Casey and Sylvia Van Hefty and Primo and Gale Filizetti, and took every opportunity she could to brag about them. They will miss her unique humor, her bottomless bucket of homemade Chex Mix, the endless games of Put-and-Take and Yahtzee they played together around the kitchen table, and the extra hug and kiss she always snuck in when saying goodbye.

Left behind to figure out life without her are Mike, Carol’s husband of 55 years who was with her through thick and thin and a caregiver at her side until the end, daughter Heather and her husband Pat Van Hefty, daughter Nicole and her husband Daniel Filizetti.

A visitation will be held on Monday, August 12, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Wichmann Funeral Home on Superior St. in Appleton, with service at 5:30 p.m. and dinner to follow. In lieu of flowers, Carol would be delighted to know that donations were being made in honor of her special love for her special needs granddaughter Sylvia to the SAT B2 Gene Foundation. You can do so at https://satb2gene.org/donate/.