Carol Harmer resident article

Hey all you wonderful readers! I am back and I am going to try to keep this thing updated when I can I know I am super busy and its hard to write new stories and what not but here are the last installments of all the articles that I have been writing lately. I volunteer at a retirement home and I write the articles on peoples lives. What amazing people they are and the interesting stories they share. Please enjoy!!

Carol Harmer

            Carol Harmer was born on December 19th 1929 in Fairview Idaho a mile from the Utah state line. Her parents were Margret Rue and Alonzo Harding. She was the fourth child out of 7 children. She had three brothers and three sisters.

                Her father ran and owned a gas station and store next to their home. She would work in the store a lot cleaning and stocking shelves. Her father was killed by a drunk driver when she was nine so she had to help in the store a lot more and help take care of her sick mother. She helped raise two brothers.

            One of her fondest memories of her father was when they would go five miles up the canyon with their father. They would play in the river have lunch and then go home. It was a treat.

            One thing that Carol loved was music. She would sing all the time. She would sing duets with her sister. She had one of the leads in the Opera at Preston High as well as two of her other siblings. She also loved gardening. One of her chores was to take the cows out to pasture. Carol didn't graduate high school at the normal time every one else did because she was too busy taking care of her mother and she got married at the age of Seventeen.

            Carol met her first husband through her mother. Both her mother and his mother were good friends. She would write him while he was in the service and when he came home he came and watched her perform in a music festival. They were married September 1946. Carol had eight children, but lost one, with her first husband and they were married for 38 years before they got a divorce.

            Her First husband worked in Preston he worked as a plumber. After four years they moved to Utah. She would sell textile painting and would paint figurines just to make some money.

            Carol sang every chance she got. She would sing at funerals in Idaho Falls. She even sang with the Tabernacle Choir in Canada and Ceder City before she found out she had cancer of the throat. All of her children where involved in music.

            Carol had six children before she went back and graduated high school and got her degree. She did her last years of high school in six months. She worked as an aid in a hospital. She furthered her education by going to Weber State and getting her nursing degree. She was an RN for twenty years.

            After Carol divorced her first husband she met and married Orval. She met Orval at a singles dance in Ogden. They were married and she moved from Springville to Ogden where they lived for twenty years. One thing they loved to do was travel. They traveled throughout the world. They went to China, England, Denmark, and St. Petersburg just to name a few.

            Carol and Orval moved to the Seville the first week of March 2012. On March 14th Orval was involved in a horrible accident. He was T-boned after taking her to the doctor. So now Orval resides in a facility outside the Seville. She loves the Seville. They have taken good care of her especially through all the stress of Orval's accident. She loves the activites and the other residents.