Carol Ann Willson

Carol was born on April 30, 1945, to Jeannette and George Truman in Providence, Rhode Island. She completed high school at Warwick, RI., and received a BA at Rhode Island College. She taught 3rd grade until marriage to Victor L. Willson on August 14, 1970. They moved to Boulder, CO for graduate work where Carol received her MA in Elementary Education. 

After living in Minneapolis following graduate school Carol and Victor moved to Vermillion, SD, where Carol bore sons Eric Alexander and Kurt Stanley. A move to Texas A&M was followed by the birth of son Scott Leonard in Bryan TX. Carol taught for the English Language Institute at Texas A&M until its closure and then reviewed dissertations and theses in the University Thesis Office until her retirement in 2017.

Carol was a longtime quilter and member of the Brazos Bluebonnet Quilt Guild. In 1989 she received a small grant to start a quilt education project for local schools and continued working with it until last year. She also was an accomplished basket maker and in earlier years both exhibited at fairs and sold baskets and quilt products. Carol was devoted to her grandchildren and loved gardening.

Carol is survived by her husband Victor, son Eric and daughter-in-law April and their grandchildren Michael, Dustin, and Zoey of San Antonio; son Kurt and daughter-in-law Andrea of Center Conway, New Hampshire; son Scott and daughter-in-law Kimberley of Nashville, TN; sister Patricia Truman of Wayland MA; brother George Truman and sister-in-law Antoinette of Cranston, RI; aunts Louise Noret of Coventry RI and Helen and Chris Polselli of Warwick RI; and cousins Susan Porth, Nancy Onorato, Linda Polselli, Brian Noret, Thomas Noret, and Sandra Keough. Carol was aunt to nephews George Truman III and Mark Olowinski and nieces Erin Truman and Kate Olowinski Elkin.

A viewing is scheduled for Callaway-Jones Funeral Home in Bryan, with a funeral mass later at St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church in College Station. Cremation will be followed by a burial in Crested Butte CO at a later date. Donations of remembrance may be made to the Brazos Bluebonnet Quilt Guild, P O Box 9497, College Station TX 77842 or St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Parish, 2541 Earl Rudder Freeway, College Station TX 77845 or to can be given to the charity of donor’s choice.