Carol West, of Grand Island, died Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, at the age of 76.
Carol Rae Novak was born in Wahoo in 1946, the daughter of Charles and Ruth (Larson) Novak. After having lived in several communities in Nebraska as a young child, she settled with her family in Crete and graduated from Crete High in 1964. She attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and graduated with her teaching degree in May of 1968.
Carol married Wayne West at Bethlehem Lutheran in Crete on June 8, 1968. While living in Lincoln, she started her teaching career in Malcolm. She taught in several Nebraska school districts before she and Wayne settled in Grand Island in 1980. She started at the Grand Island Post Office in 1980 and retired in 2007 after 27 Years.
Carol loved to fish and spent about 25 summers in a row at their cabin at Sherman Reservoir. She was proud of having earned a Master Angler award for catching an 8.5 lb. walleye in 1998. Carol also loved to travel all over the United States, but especially to Hawaii, where she and Wayne visited three times. Carol loved to cook, bake, collect recipes, host her family for holidays and to watch Husker football.
Carol is survived by her husband, Wayne, of Grand Island; two sons and their families, Nathan and Lisa and Matthew and Stacie; and five grandchildren, Alec, Bayleigh, Keagan, Preston and Asa.
A visitation is planned Thursday, Sept 22, from 5 to 7 p.m., at All Faiths Funeral Home in Grand Island. A memorial service will be Friday, Sept. 23, at 10:30 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church Sanctuary in Grand Island, with lunch to follow. Condolences may be left for the family online at www.giallfaiths.com.
