Carole J. Harrett

Carole Jean Eggert was born January 15, 1948 in Mecosta County MI. After graduating from Hamady High School in 1966, she attended University of Michigan-Flint where she received a BS degree in Engineering Sciences.

While attending there, she met a GMI student named Dan Harrett. After an intense period of dating they became engaged in July of that year. They were wed September 12, 1970 in Westwood Heights Church. One of the couples’ first purchases was a Sears Kenmore sewing machine. This was the start of a custom sewing business, and a lifelong passion for quilting.

In 1976 they bought a house in Holly. They welcomed Benjamin Keith, born in December of 1981, and Amanda Kaye, born in January of 1985. They moved to a bigger house in Grand Blanc in 1989, to be closer to Dan’s new job at Buick. Carole became a regular at the Grand Blanc Heritage Museum, which had a working quilting group, and at another, larger group, the Genesee Star Quilters, where she served a term as President. She also started her own circle of quilters who met among themselves regularly.

In later years, Carole volunteered at the Heritage Museum, and also took up the renovation of castoff sewing machines for St. Luke’s Catholic Church N.E.W. Life Program.

After a short bout with strokes and an aggressive form of cancer, Carole passed away in hospice on September 14, 2025, surrounded by family and friends. She is greatly missed by many.