I am sadden to learn that you are mourning the loss of your beloved Carol. May your many shared family memories of her bring comfort to all.
It also saddens our loving Creator Jehovah God because death is an enemy that brings pain and emptiness to each family it touch. For that reason Psalm 34:18 reminds us he is "close" to those that grieve and feel brokenhearted.
How heartwarming Job 14:13-15 and John 5:28-29 reassures us that Jehovah has memories of our loved ones whose lives he longs to restore to a garden-like paradise. With his son Jesus Christ ruling paradise earth, all effects of pain, sickness and death will be gone, a guarantee at Revelation 21:3-4.