Carole Eve Wade

Our dear sister Carole died peacefully Sunday afternoon at her home in La Costa Glen. Her Son Jason & her Daughter Jessica & her Grandson Colin were able to say goodbye to her.

Carole’s sister & brother-in-law Debra & Steven Shaiken, were with Carole at the end, as they had been throughout her last illness & many health challenges over recent years Carole’s other two sisters Roni Wade & Wendy Cookler were able to share some happy memories with Carole before she passed. She is deeply missed by her 3 surviving sisters as well as their children who also had the opportunity to say goodbye.

Carole led an exceptionally full life – in fact many different lives. She was a Psychology student at UCLA & then at Stanford University, where she earned her Ph.D. while also being a fulll-time Mother.

Carole taught Psychology at the University of Michigan, Rutgers, and the University of New Mexico. She was working her way back to California, where she found an intellectual home in the San Diego area as a member of the exciting team of Psychologists working on the-new magazine "Psychology Today." She was very close with her colleagues, including Carol Tavris (with whom she wrote the landmark book The Longest War-The War Between the Sexes", and many psych textbooks and articles. She is fondly remembered by her co-author Carol Tavris & colleague Brian Weiss.

In San Diego she also met Howard Williams, her life partner of 40+ years until his death in 2023.

Carole & Howard moved to Northern California before residing back in the San Diego area.– they settled first to Marin Co., then even further North to Cool California. The town fulfilled Carole's longtime wish to do something different...Cool is a "Horse Community" in the mountains & it fulfilled her longtime cowgirl dreams. Carole & Howard loved rural life in the mountains, country music & Western dancing---and horses. Carole became a a full time cowgirl & “mom” to their 3 horses. (She finally fulfilled a childhood dream, which began 50 yrs. earlier, when she won 2nd prize in the National "Gene Autry Name Champion’s Pony" Contest, Our parents were so relieved that she didn’t win the pony). Even though Carole hadn't won 1st prize, a lifelong love of everything Western had begun.

In their later years, Carole & Howard returned to the San Diego area to be close to family, and both also found many new friends and fulfilling lives in their new La Costa Glen home with their little dog Bella,

We miss them terribly, but our vivid memories will live in our hearts forever.