Caroline Evers

Caroline Evers was born in Bakersfield, CA on August 31st, 1964. She grew up in Bakersfield with her parents and older siblings. Carol attended school at East Bakersfield High School. She continued to live in Bakersfield, and this became her home where she would later meet the love of her life, Carl Dwain Evers. Carol and Dwain got married and started a family by welcoming their daughter, Amanda Lexy Evers. They were married for 33 wonderful years.

Carol was an incredible, caring, devoted, and loving mother, wife, aunt, sister, daughter, niece, cousin, and friend. Carol helped many people in the Bakersfield community through her work at Career Services Center, now America’s Job Center. There she would also make many lifelong friends. Carol was the definition of a selfless person as she cared about everyone and would always put them before herself. She was the person who would cheer you on, celebrate your wins as if they were her own, pull you back up when you were down, give you the shirt off her back, pray for you, and love you through every hardship.

Through the years, Carol would experience great loss in her family with the passing of her parents, Teresa and Frank Sanchez Sr., siblings, Frank Sanchez Jr., Irene Yzaguirre, and Lionel Sanchez, her nephew, Jesse Yzaguirre Jr., and her uncle, Armando Apodoca. Carol missed her loved ones fiercely every day. Despite this, she was still full of life and lived her life for them to the fullest. She knew how to have fun and enjoyed her life and her time with her friends and family.

Carol also enjoyed camping with her family and friends, taking family trips to fun places, having people over for dinners and BBQ’s, going to the beach, going on cruises with her husband, and playing games with her family. Carol loved her pets, especially her fur baby, Ellie. She also loved her late dog Hercules more than anything, and we know he ran to her the minute she crossed over.

Carol first became a grandmother on September 25th, 2023, when Amanda gave birth to her first child, Skye Neveah Tarango. She loved being a grandmother, and Skye gave her the nickname of “Gran Gran”. Amanda and Oswald then welcomed another baby girl, Aleia Reign Tarango, or as Carol would say, “her peanut”, on January 31st of 2025, thus making Carol a grandmother a second time. Carol was over the moon and loved her grandchildren. She loved to spoil them and would get them everything she thought they needed. She loved to shop for them and get them matching outfits to continue the tradition of the matching outfits that she would put her daughter, Amanda, and her bonus child, her niece, Frankie Lynn in. Carol was excited to know that she would yet again be welcoming another grandchild in the summer of 2026. Enjoying time with her family filled Carol’s heart and kept her going. She filled our hearts as she lit up every room. If you knew Carol personally, she impacted who you were as a person. She made you a kinder person, a more thoughtful person, she made you feel loved, helped you find forgiveness for others and offered you a different perspective. She gave you a safe space to exist, she taught you how to be more loving and open, she helped you laugh when you were sad and always reminded you of how beautiful life could be. Carol always welcomed everyone into her home and her loving presence. She was full of empathy and compassion. She was a perfect example of what we should all strive to be.

Carol had a relationship with God and loved Jesus. She would pray every morning while getting ready for work or driving in the car. The Lord needed Carol for reasons we can’t understand right now. He called her home on December 29th, 2025. We are comforted to know she knew Jesus and had her parents and siblings to greet her when she passed.

Carol is survived by her husband, Carl Dwain Evers, her daughter, Amanda Lexy Evers, her son-in-law, Oswald Tarango, and her grandchildren, Hayden Nicole Tarango, Skye Neveah Tarango, Aleia Reign Tarango, and baby Tarango. As well as her bonus child, her niece, and goddaughter, Frankie Lynn Hagelstein, her niece Cecilia Marie Yzaguirre, her godsons and nephews Ted Victor Arviso, Moses Anthony Gutierrez, and Alonzo Yzaguirre. In addition to her sister-in-law, Marnie Elizabeth Evers, her brother-in-law, Mark Warren, and her cousin, Gina Lorraine Zavaleta Aguilar.

Her passing leaves us with a void that can never be filled, as her life held such meaning for us all. Carol will never be forgotten as she now exists in the hearts of all those who love her. We will carry her in everything we do, and her memory will live on.