Carol Jimerson
This biography was written by Carol's brother, Mike Jimerson of Costa Mesa, CA and Carol's sister Patty Jimerson Adams of Vinita, OK. Mike sent this to us because he heard that we were making a memory book and he thought we might want her to be included. :
Carol was a character - a caring, highly intelligent, independent, humorous and witty, fun-loving character. She had a great sense of humor and saw the upside to just about everything. When she was just barely a teenager and it was bedtime and lights out, Mom would often catch her under her covers reading Plato, Aristotle, other great philosopher's, and the classics with a flashlight. Carol met David Cowles while she was working in Denver, CO, and they were married August 31, 1968. Carol and David both loved nature and the Rocky Mountains and hiked and camped as often as they could.

Carol loved photography and was an avid amateur photographer winning several awards for her photographic works.

At age 26, 6 weeks after her marriage to David, she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. Her cancer had been twice previously misdiagnosed by 2 different doctors. The cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and back and was beyond even a radical double mastectomy. She was given 6 months to live. Carol, being Carol, stubborn as she was, defied all medical logic and refused to let the medical practitioners put any thoughts or beliefs
in her head about how long she would, or would not, live.
Carol's engagement picture
She forgave the physicians who misdiagnosed her cancer and held no resentment toward them. In the 3 years following the diagnosis, she lived a caring and giving life, not just to family and friends, but to other terminally ill patients and to the medical community. Carol counseled other terminally ill patients and lectured to intern classes on what it was like to know you only have so much time left on this earth and on how to deal more caring and effectively with terminally ill patients.

Carol passed away, not of the breast cancer she fought so valiantly, but of lung cancer on Independence Day, July 4, 1977, and if any a day was a fitting day for Carol, it would have been Independence Day. Carol and David had a favorite little camping spot by a little lake high in the Rockies, reachable only by climbing and hiking. As one of her last wishes, Carol asked David to scatter her ashes about their favorite camp site by that little lake high in the Rockies. She is one with nature there today. We still miss her so much.
Carol's daughter, Caroline Waple, shared some pictures of Carol from when Carol was first married.
She was a bit of a cut up!