Carol Jean Packard was born on April 1, 1938, to Magnus Kjar Jacobsen and Georgia Edith Jacobsen in Laurel Ne. She was home birthed and delivered by a local Dr. Carroll. Carol was originally given the spelling of the doctor, but later had it changed to Carol. In the early 1940’s her family (two brothers and four sisters) moved to Kennewick, WA where her father worked at Hanford and later at the Ice Harbor Dam. She went to Fruitland grade school and Kennewick high school, graduating in 1956. She loved acrobatics and performed with the team at many high school games. She loved the quite time in the after-school study hall and for that reason she would frequently miss the school bus and walk three miles home.

She was very good at roller skating and met her husband Doug at the Richland skating rink. They were married on July 28, 1958, at Camp Hanford chapel and lived on Camp Hanford just off George Washington Way on the base trailer park. She had saved enough before marriage to buy their first trailer house (24 ft.). Their first child Randy was born at the Camp Hanford Hospital on July10, 1959.

After Doug’s discharge in July 1969, they moved to Madison, SD and then onto Brookings, SD where Doug went to college. She supported the family in those years as a checker in a grocery store and later did the same in Ames IA for a total of 7 years. Her second son Tom was born in Ames on Nov. 29, 1965. They then moved back to the Tri-Cities for 2 years and then to Sunol, CA where Carol worked at a Thrifty Drug in Fremont and later became an assistant manager. In 1970 they moved back to The Tri Cities where Doug worked in the nuclear industry and Carol worked for the next 15 years at the Buttrey’s’ as a store secretary. Carol retired in 1998, and they started traveling with a small travel trailer around the country and spent the next 24 winters in Yuma, AZ where they both volunteered their time at a Shriner club that put-on thousands of dinners at local RV parks. In 2024 they gave up on Yuma due to Doug’s health and have remained in Richland.

Carol loved to read mysteries, research her family tree, backpack in the Sierras and the Cascades with the family and sail in a small sailboat in the San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound. She was an excellent seamstress and made many of her own clothes over the years. She was active in the Masonic Women’s Amaranth Court #78 in Kennewick and became the Royal Matriarch in 1990.

She was a beautiful blue-eyed blond and a very, very hard worker. When she would sit down at the end of the day to watch TV, her eyes would close and that was it. She really did not care about TV. Two of her favorite things to do had lunch at the Senior lunch in Richland and visited the Richland Spudnut Shop.

Carol was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, Norman and Donald. and two sisters Georgia and Loraine. She is survived by two sisters Mary Renaud and Darlene Rizzotti (both were very close to her over the years), husband Doug and their two sons Sidney Thomas (Tom) and Vernon Randall (Randy) and two very much-loved nieces Tammy and Lora Lee.