Carol Lucille Garrison ( 18 July 1938 – 25 August 1999)

Born:

18 July 1938 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States¹

Married:

24 Oct 1959 at First Presbyterian Church in Pitman, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States to Charles Edward Conrad.²

Died:

25 August 1999 in Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, United States³

Parents:

Orville Wilson Garrison (20 September 1907 – 25 June 1968)³
Naomi Evelyn Carman (22 July 1905 – 3 November 1999)³

Spouse:

Charles Edward Conrad (3 April 1937 – 16 June 1999)

Children:

Living

Ancestors
Carol is a descendant of Samuel L. Garrison & Lydia Burch, Charles R. Carman & Caroline A. Brill, Ansel Irelan & Elizabeth Ayars, Uriah Ware & Mary V. Coleman, Hudson Craner & Phebe Clark, Wendel Gottlieb Hornef & Maria Louis, and Joseph Funston & Frances.

Biography
Carol Lucille Garrison was born on 18 Jul 1938 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.¹ She lived at 37 Arbustus in Pitman, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States on 1 Apr 1940.⁴ Carol was a Registered Nurse. She died on 25 Aug 1999 at the age of 61 in Bradenton, Manatee, Florida, USA.³

Last updated: 25 July 2013

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Citations

1. Pennsylvania, Department of Health, birth certificate (1938), Carol L. Garrison; Division of Vital Records, New Castle.
2. Pitman, Gloucester County, New Jersey, marriage certificate (1959), Charles E. Conrad & Carol L. Garrison; Office of Registrar of Vital Statistics, Pitman.
3. Florida, Department of Health, death certificate 99-105725 (1999), Carol L. Conrad; Office of Vital Statistics, Jacksonville.
4. 1940 U.S. Census, Gloucester County, New Jersey, population schedule, Pitman, enumeration district (ED) 8-42, sheet 7B, line 55, household 17, Mary Garrison; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2000219 : accessed 7 June 2013).

 

This post is part of the Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women’s History Month.

Today’s prompt:

What education did your mother receive? Your grandmothers? Great-grandmothers? Note any advanced degrees or special achievements.

Both of my grandmothers left school after the eighth grade to work in the hosiery mills in Philadelphia. My mother was the first person in my family to graduate high school. Her father attended one year of high school and my other grandfather attended 3 years. She also was the first to obtain an education beyond high school.

My mother graduated from the Presbyterian Hospital nurses training program in Philadelphia in 1959. It was a three year program with traditional classroom learning and hands-on training. She told me she had always wanted to be a nurse. She also told me some eye-opening stories about working in a city hospital in the 1950’s. Hint: drugs and violence are not new phenomena.

Upon graduation my mother worked in the maternity ward of Presbyterian Hospital. Later in her life she worked as a home health care nurse.

 

Genealogy is intimately tied to death. Most genealogy jokes revolve around the fact that we spend so much time with dead people, or with the records they left behind anyway. I even subtitled my blog “News about dead people.”

Sometimes these dead people are a lot closer to us however, and we cannot joke about their absence. Each record of theirs we hold in our hands brings back memories, a reminder that all of our ancestors were once living, breathing people, as dear to someone as our recently lost are to us.

I have always been careful not to include the living in research I have posted to the internet. I have often extended this to people who have recently passed away. In my mind they are still living, I suppose.  But, I have also had the desire to memorialize the dead, to extend their lives a bit by sharing what I knew of them with other people.

My parents passed away 13 years ago this summer. I have assiduously kept their information off of the internet. Partly out of privacy, partly out of grief, partly because they are just too young to be “dead ancestors.” But, the 1940 census was released this year and they are in it. And, I decided to begin work on the electronic family tree book I always had in mind, and I want to start with them, so I am finally adding their names to my public database.

Charles “Charlie” Conrad was born in 1937 in Philadelphia to Edward C. Conrad and Susan L. Todd. You can see him in the 1940 census in my Todds on Tioga and Conrads around the Corner post. Carol Garrison was born in 1938 in Philadelphia to Orville W. Garrison and Naomi E. Carman. Charlie and Carol were married in 1959 in Pitman, New Jersey. Charlie served in the Air Force in the 1950’s and later worked as an accountant and comptroller. Carol was a registered nurse. They had their own business in the 1980’s. In the 1990’s they moved to Florida where they both passed away in 1999.

They loved each other deeply and saw each other through sickness and health, good times and bad. This site and my research have always been secretly dedicated to them. Now you know.