CAROL ANN MULLANEY

CAROL ANN MULLANEY
Carol Ann Miller Mullaney, 83, passed away peacefully in Santa Fe, NM on September 14, 2022.
Carol Ann grew up in the "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood of New York City with her parents Peter and Ann Miller. In her youth she taught multiply-handicapped blind children, attended St Joseph's College, and completed a Master's degree at Hunter College in special education. In 1963 she married and moved to Los Alamos, NM with her husband Dr. Paul F. Mullaney, a biophysics flow cytometry scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In Los Alamos she was always energetic and involved in many activities including director of AAUW coop nursery school, the Arts Festivals, United Way, the Catholic church among many others. She later moved in 1980 to Oak Ridge, TN, the home of another national laboratory, and taught children with disabilities. After her husband's death, always eager to learn, she completed her Ed.D. at Vanderbilt Peabody University in Nashville, TN. That effort led to her happy return to Los Alamos where she worked in multiple positions as a trainer with the laboratory. In 2003 she married Dr. Stephen Peter Gary, a plasma physics scientist, and they both moved to Santa Fe in 2006. Carol Ann had a very rich life and was an avid supporter and collector of southwestern art and volunteered as a docent at local museums. Her varied other interests included the Santa Fe Garden Club, Santa Fe Chamber Music, Kitchen Angels, book clubs, traveling and entertaining friends at her Sierra del Norte home. She is survived by her son Dr. Brian Mullaney and her daughter Maura Mullaney. Services will be held Wednesday September 28th at 1pm at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in downtown Santa Fe, concluding with a reception in the Cathedral garden.