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David Keller posted a condolence
Thursday, November 21, 2019
For me, Aunt Carol was inextricably connected with Odessa and Lakeview Ranch/Pacific Lake. Many of these memories come from formative fourth through tenth grade summers working on the farm alongside the Evavold clan. She seemed to be always sweetness and light and had a ready laugh and wry chuckle as I grew up.
Early memories there include big adventures with Jim and Steve when somehow we managed to hitch Grandpa’s aging horse Trigger to an old baby buggy. Then one of us rode around the circular road between the Lakeview shop and the Little House. My Mom Joanne, Carol’s younger sister, might have got after us about this “charioteering” adventure with poor prodigiously sweating Trigger, but Carol took it all in stride.
Another incident involved the kids mixing quantities of foul “ant poison” made with a variety of household cleaning products. Next we dumped it on a big red-ant pile beyond the garden (where we were probably supposed to be pulling weeds.) After quite awhile spent on this antic pastime, someone quipped - Carol, Anne, Tom? - as we refilled our bottle with more detergent in the kitchen, if our manufacturing all of this “Aunt Poison” was appropriate. A bit later, after we grew bored with our prank, this sunk in.
I also have memories of after school catechism class, taught by Carol, and particularly her beautiful calligraphic script on the blackboard - a script to which I aspire. Again, in those Parish Hall basement teaching sessions to the 6th and 7th grade combined class, she was always patient and kind.
My wife Shelly and I recall her faithful correspondence with us throughout our life and our pleasure in keeping in touch with Carol.
Finally, I recall her incredible ramrod posture and her beautiful demeanor, even into her late 90s. A last great memory brings this to mind when Joanne, Shelly, my brother and sister Will and Nancy, and Steve and I all visited Odessa on Memorial Day 2018. Steve picked up Carol at her Quail Court residence where she was always ready for just about anything. He brought her back to Reiman Park where we had a great picnic. There and later out at Lakeview Ranch Carol enjoyed the day, occasionally adding details to stories like how she painted the huge red barn in cut offs and flip flops.
I’ll miss Aunt Carol’s great Walter half-smile, but have these and many other fond memories that I’ll cherish forever.
~Dave Keller
November 20, 2019
in Mexico