Carolyn Everett Obituary

Carolyn Curtis Everett, a long-time resident of Lawrence, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in December of 1938. Her father was a captain in the US Navy, so her family moved frequently. During her school years, she lived in various places such as Pearl Harbor, San Diego, Jacksonville, FL, the Panama Canal Zone, and Boston.

Carolyn graduated from Albion College, MI, with a degree in education and taught elementary school for a couple of years before enrolling in graduate school at Boston University, where she completed a Master's degree in reading instruction. She worked as a reading consultant prior to becoming a full-time elementary teacher in the Boston area and later in Lawrence, KS. She eventually moved to Jr. High School, where she taught home economics before her retirement in the 1990's. She was known for her remarkable ability to control unruly Jr. High School students! While teaching full time, she became a very successful real estate agent, working in the evenings and on weekends.

Carolyn also was quite an accomplished artist and learned to play several musical instruments. She and her husband Grover travelled extensively and lived for more than two years in Australia and nearly a year in Oxford, England, while Grover was on sabbatical leave from the University of KS. She was always eager to meet new people and to learn about their culture. She never got over her fascination with cats, and she loved to cook and to sew.

She was an outstanding mother to her two children and a loving and supportive wife for her husband, Grover. They would have been married 60 years this December.

Carolyn and Grover moved into a retirement home in Tucson, AZ, in 2016. Carolyn moved into the Memory-Care unit here in 2022. She is survived by her husband, her daughter Susan Everett and son-in-law, Peter Riccio of Boulder, CO, her son Mark Everett of Tucson, a granddaughter Ella Riccio of Maine, and her brother, David Curtis of Annapolis, MD.