Carol June Jackson

Carol was born June 19, 1936 to parents, Catherine and Grover Tachell in Seattle, WA. Her grandparents were Swedish immigrants who came to Ellis Island as teens on the USS Lusitania. Eventually the couple made it to the Ballard area and bought a house on Queen Anne Hill. Carol spent most of her early life on Boston Street on Queen Anne Hill. Her teenage years were spent as an army brat when her mother remarried a service man stationed at Fort Lewis. She started high school in Virginia Beach, North Carolina and graduated from high school in Heidelberg, Germany. After a short stay in Italy, Carol and her new husband traveled back to the US and settled down in Alhambra, California. In 1957 she had the first of 2 daughters, Cynthia. Later she moved back to Seattle where she met her second husband when she got a temporary job as a ticket booth seller at the 1962 World’s Fair. He was with the carnival that traveled to the Fair. Thus began her life, and her love of travel, with West Coast Shows-a traveling carnival. Her second daughter Catherine came in 1964 while Carol was staying with friends in the carnival’s winter quarters in Sonoma, CA.

In 1977 she and her family moved to Port Townsend, WA, where her first employment was with a fish processing unit on Union Wharf on Port Townsend Bay. She was soon to get what became her “dream job” as one of the librarians at Grant Street Elementary School, where she worked for nearly 13 years. After retirement she and her husband traveled the country towing a 27 foot motorhome, before deciding to settle down in Yuma, AZ. It was during their twilight years that they decided to move back to Washington to be near family. Carol loved to visit historical places and she had traveled to England 3 times. She was an avid gardener and canned her own fruits and vegetables. She was an accomplished seamstress and hand worker, creating works of art from framed cross stitches to knitted blankets to elegant prom dresses. During the 60s and 70s she made most of her own clothes, as well as her family’s. She loved to read, she loved Native American jewelry and art as well as spending time with family. She instilled her love of books in all her descendants and every year all the grandchildren were gifted with brand new, age appropriate books that she had carefully selected. Carol was preceded in death by her grandparents, her parents, her husbands and her baby sister, Susan. She is survived by her daughters and their spouses, 6 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and 6 great great grandchildren as well as numerous friends, all of whom she loved very much and surrounded herself with their photos.

She passed away peacefully on October 16, 2024 in Bremerton, WA, she will be deeply missed.