Caren, as her friends knew her, and her husband Bob raised their three sons in Olla, LA where she was the Town Clerk and owned and operated her own floral shop.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held at 11 a.m., Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Clarksburg, WV, with Father Patsy Iaquinta as celebrant.

Interment followed in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Clarksburg, WV.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Robert “Bob” E. Connell Jr., also originally from Clarksburg; brother, Patrick A. Elder; and son Michael O’Shea Connell.

She is survived by her brother Jonathon Elder (Mary) of Morgantown WV, originally from Clarksburg; sons, Robert E. Connell III and wife, Sheri, of Johnson City, TN and Timothy O’Brian Connell and wife, Ginger, of Houston, TX; ten grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren who knew her as “GawGaw”.

Mary Caren Elder Connell passed from this life on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.

She was born in Charleston, WV, and raised in Clarksburg, and was the daughter of the late Arthur Duke Elder and Margaret Dolan Elder of Clarksburg.