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Note: !Carol was an extraordinary person, she was a musician, photographer, woman Marine, artist, athlete and a wonderful wife.
During her teenage years she had pnemonia and the doctor recommended her to
play an instrument so she took up the saxaphone. She played in the East High
School Band, the Goodyear band and the first women's orchestra in Akron, Ohio.
After graduating from high school she went to work at Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company (a family tradition). She really got bored at that and joined the
Women's Marine Corp during WWII. She was sent to Washington D.C. for training
and worked in Marine Corp. Hdqs. which was another desk job and she hated that.
She finally got her chance to go to photographers school and was then sent to
El Toro Marine Base in California as a Aerial Photographer. She took many
photographs of many movie stars that visited the base and many photos of her
friends doing their work on the airbase which are now on display at the Women
Marine Association's Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
While in California she met Ray at a bowling alley near the marine base.
After the war was over and she was discharged she went back to Akron, Ohio and
worked in another photo shop for awhile plus working for her father in his
confectionary store in Goodyear Heights.
NOTE !Carol was an extraordinary person, she was a musician, photographer, woman portrait artist which many of her paintings are still hanging in
households. She also was quite active in athletics, she loved batminton, and bowling. She was on many bowling teams and won many trophys one was being one of a very few women, being a member of the 600 Club with 632 series.
In 1980 she had kidney failure and then in 1982 she contacted bone cancer and passed away in 1983.
!MILITARY: Carol entered the Womens Marine Corp on 9 April 1943 and entered on active duty 18 May 1943. She was separated 28 May 1945. Her Marine
Corp Serial Number was W751652 (WR).
Christened: Goodyear Heights United Presbyterian Church, Akron,Summit,Oh
Buried:Fort Sam Houston Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas
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