Carole

She was born in Long Beach California at a Navy Hospital on November 15, 1945,  right after WWII.

Growing up in a small town in northern Illinois she earned her B.S. in psychology at the University of Illinois and worked as a counselor for a Sheriff's Boy's Camp in Florida after graduation.  Later she moved to Colorado and worked as a deputy sheriff and counselor at a prison where she was a legendary crack shot who out shot all the officers on the force.

She earned her Master's degree in psychology at JFK University in 1984 and became a licensed Mariage and Family Therapist in 1990.

She truly believed that life was meant to be spent helping others.  She helped so many people during her lifetime, both through her work and just by living. 

Although she never did either one professionally, she danced and sang with absolute abandon, always encouraging everyone around her to, "Dance like no one is watching." 

She rode a motorcycle, did her own gardening, loved clothes and jewelry, her cats and the big dogs she was always rescuing.  She was an all around awesome woman, a true free spirit.  One of the best,

Most of all, for me, she was my friend.  We lived far apart, both busy with our own lives, occasionally not contacting each other for months at a time, but never doubting the other was there if she was needed.

I wasn't there.  I didn't know she died, October 11, 2012.  For that I am truly sorry.