Carole (Evans) FITZGERALD

FITZGERALD, EVANS, HAMUD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/13/2013 at 18:15:11

Eugene woman turns 100

Carole Fitzgerald of Eugene will celebrate her 100th birthday today at the Sheldon Oaks retirement center.

She was born Dec. 23, 1912, on a farm in Williams, Iowa, to Theodore and Opal Evans. She was raised on the farm and graduated from Dows High School in Dows, Iowa.

She has outlived five husbands, a sister and a son. She married her third husband in 1941. He was in the Merchant Marines and stationed on Catalina Island, Calif. She was a seamstress on the island, sewing patches and making alterations for sailors during World War II.

She has four children, seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.

“She is a self-taught woman, very independent and curious about life and the universe,” wrote her son, 69-year-old Jan Hamud of California, in an e-mail. “She is in exceptional health, helping others through nutrition to live a better life. She works out a couple of times a week in the gym at Sheldon Oaks.”

Register-Guard --- Eugene, Oregon
December 23, 2012