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Carolyn was born December 15, 1943 in Washington D.C. to the late Virgil Absher, and the late Marjorie (Dillon) Storey, and her stepfather, the late John R. Storey. She graduated from Anacostia High School in 1962. She received her Diploma in Nursing from Washington Hospital Center in 1965.
Carolyn is survived by her husband of 60 years, George Wayne King of Montross, Virginia. She is survived by her children: Andrea (Samuel) Fattori of Newburg, Maryland and Gerald (Joyce) King of Dunkirk, Maryland; grandchildren: Joshua (Carly) Abbott of Fredericksburg, Virginia, Taylor Abbott of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Carson King of Dunkirk, Maryland. In addition, she's survived by her sister in law Barbara Stephens, and her brother in laws the late Larry King, Donald King, and Brian King. She has many dear cousins and dear friends.
Carolyn worked as an RN for over 40 years, working in the ICU, ER, OR, Nursing Education, and as a Nursing Supervisor. She loved gardening, the outdoors, and animals, especially dogs, dachshunds in particular. She was a Master Gardener and a former member of the Westmoreland Garden Club.
A Celebration of Life will be held on May 31st at 1pm at the home of Sam and Andrea Fattori,12138 Liberty Rose Place Newburg, MD 20664.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Westmoreland Animal Shelter or to a charity of your choice.
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Stanley Graves
May 22, 2025
I do remember Carolyn, and sorry to learn another classmate has passed away. It has been too long time since our Anacostia Days. Carolyn certainly lived a productive life, and she worked importantly in the medical field as an RN. A field that is important to me theses days. May Carolyn Rest in Peace. Please know that Carolyn's classmates and friends offer her family sincere sympathy and condolescences.
Sincerely,
Stanley Graves
AHS 1961
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Janet Reinhold Brown
May 20, 2025
I have so many good memories of Carolyn. She and I have been friends since elementary school and maintained our friendship through high school, and then long afterward into our `elderly´ years. In grade school, it was just a short walk through `the woods´ on a path up a hill from my house to hers. In those days we often sat on a particular fallen tree in that wooded area talking and solving the problems of our small world. One cold winter we took our ice skates to the creek behind my house, and I remember how exhilarating it was skating on that tiny patch of ice, the two of us laughing and pretending we were on a great pond. The spring of our graduation from Anacostia in 1961, my father offered me the car for a couple of weeks IF I washed and waxed it. My family had moved to Rockville that winter, and I was living with my grandmother in Congress Heights so I wouldn´t have to change schools my senior year. Carolyn came with me to Rockville, and she and I washed and waxed that car to shinning perfection. Every day thereafter we would meet at the car parked nearby the school (Carolyn, Doris, Jane, Nancy, and me) and then drive to the Hot Shoppes for a Mighty Mo, some other location, or sometimes just home. We both had a connection to the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, me at Plum Point and Carolyn at Dares Beach (or was it Drum Point?). In 2006, for a multi-class Anacostia reunion at the Rod `n´ Reel in nearby Chesapeake Beach, we attended together from my cottage at Plum Point (I´m attaching a photo). Carolyn and I met periodically over a long span of years, the last time just before Covid at the Prime Street Grill where her granddaughter was employed. I am missing Carolyn now, knowing I can´t simply pick up the phone and call her or even communicate by email. Carolyn loved her family, and I send all of you my heartfelt sympathy.
Ann Wallace Petersen
May 19, 2025
I have such good memories of my time with Carolyn in IOJD, Bethel 51, especially as she went through line. She was a gracious officer. I also remember when her mom married Linda's dad. I l lost touch with her after I left Washington D.C in 1965 but it sounds like she had a fulfilling life. RIP, Carolyn. Ann Wallace Petersen, class of '61.
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