A memorial celebration will be held on Sunday, May 23, at 2 p.m. at Greenwood Forest Baptist Church in Cary. Visitation will begin proceedings at 1:15 p.m.
Carol Wells was born Feb. 25, 1925, at Livia, Ky., the son of the late Otho W. Wells and Bessie O. Wells. He was preceded in death by brothers Hugh Curtis Wells, Dean W. Wells, Adrian L. Wells and Kenton Wells and sister Laura W. Barnett.
Surviving is his wife of 64 years, Gladys H. Wells. Also surviving are son David E. Wells and his wife, Tracy P. Wells, and a grandson, Gabriel D. Wells, all of Wallingford, CT. Other survivors are sisters Eulah May Deane and Marjorie Ray Welborn in Kentucky as well as many nieces and nephews.
Carol Wells grew up on a farm near Utica, Ky. After graduating from Calhoun High School in 1943, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became a sergeant while serving in England and Germany during and after World War II. He obtained a Bachelor’s of Science in agriculture from Western Kentucky State College and taught fellow veterans in the on-farm training program. He then went to the University of Kentucky, studying for and receiving a degree in agronomy. He followed that by earning a PhD at the University of Wisconsin in soil sciences. This led to a 30-year career in the U.S. Forest Service at Research Triangle Park, N.C., where he did studies on reforestation and the loblolly pine and had a hand in authoring many books.
He was a founding member of Cary’s Greenwood Forest Baptist Church, serving as deacon, Sunday School teacher and in various other ways. After retirement, he volunteered at Dorcas Ministries for more than 20 years. Pleasure in his work overflowed into gardening with Gladys, growing vegetables, flowers and shrubbery around their home. Fishing, woodworking, genealogy and golf – highlighted by a hole in one -- were other favorite hobbies.
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