Carol Mizer Whiting

CAROL MIZER WHITING I was born in 1925 in Mancelona, Michigan. My parents moved into our home in Mancelona in1915 when they were married and lived all their life there so I attended Mancelona schools until I graduated from high school in 1943. I was involved in all normal school activities including being on the debate team and the cheer leading squad in high school. I worked several summers at various times including work in a canning factory and as a waitress in a local restaurant and also in the local 5 & dime store. In 1943 I started college at Central Michigan College in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. I attended there for two years, before entering nurses training at Edward W. Sparrow hospital in Lansing, Michigan as a cadet nurse in the Cadet Nurse Corp. The student nurses would some time take a break from hospital food to go to the local hamburger shop where I met Harold Whiting, who was working part time there while attending Michigan State College. Harold and I were married in 1948 right after I graduated. We lived in an apartment near the hospital and I worked as a nurse at the hospital while he finished his last two years of college. After Harold’s graduation we moved to an apartment in Milwaukee. I worked there at Columbia Hospital for a short time before quitting in 1951 to raise twin daughters, followed in three years by a son and three years later by our last daughter. In 1966 with all children in school I decided to try nursing again and started part time at Columbia Hospital. Soon the part time became more and more hours until I was working full time as head nurse of a medical/surgical floor. In 1971 we moved to St. Charles, Illinois where I worked in Delnor Community Hospital as a floor nurse, P.M. supervisor and then in social services. I attended evening classes and in 1982 received a degree in nursing arts. In 1988 I retired from full time nursing, but returned for part-time, retiring two more times, the last time being in 1994. Over the years we managed to grow a fine family starting with twin daughters in 1951 and adding a boy in 1954 and another daughter in 1957. We were fortunately able to see all four complete four or more years of college with the twins having master degrees. Our youngest daughter lives in Houston and has never married which was our major reason for moving to Houston. The rest have families with one daughter in Jacksonville, Florida, one daughter in Stoneham, Mass. and our son in Cary, Illinois. In 1992 my husband and I started our winter trek to the southlands. In 2009 we decided the sands of time were catching up with us so we decided to join the family at Eagle’s Trace where we hope to enjoy many more retirement years without a lot of other concerns and cares. We changed our church membership from Tomball UMC to Memorial Drive UMC in June, 2010 although we had been attending church here and Bridgebuilders class since August, 2009

Carol Mizer Whiting

December 28, 1925 - April 3, 2014