One of my favorite memories of Carol comes from one of our beach trips. We would often take our families to Florida and share a house on the beach. This particular day my husband, Stuart, and I were sitting on the beach soaking up the sun and being very lazy. We turned around just in time to see Carol stepping out of our house followed by a flock of our kids. Smiles on their faces and food in their hands, they proceeded to hurry down the beach. We found out that they had come across a homeless man down the beach so Carol escorted our children back to the house to make this man lunch, and then deliver the food. It was affirmation to me that Carol was an extraordinarily special and giving human being. And, she was a perfect role model for all of our children. She believed in serving others and never stopped, even while on vacation. There were many lives whom she touched, some we know about and probably as many that we never even knew about.
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Teresa Swinehart
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