Carolene E. Malbone

1930—2020

Due to the Great Depression, Carol’s parents left her and two children from Faye’s first marriage—Ralph and Donna Shelley—with Faye’s parents. They cared for the children while Faye and Roy found work to support the family.

Roy had served in WWI as a cook. He and Faye worked as a cook and waitress to make enough over time to also put money down on a restaurant and move the family to an apartment behind the restaurant.

Carol went sheep shearing in the early Spring with her father. She enjoyed these experiences. She also worked at the restaurant and a local movie theater while at school.

In 1949, having graduated from Pocatello High, she followed her dream to become a nurse. She relocated to Salt Lake City to attend (the old) St. Mark’s School of Nursing. Which at that time, was affiliated with the University of Utah. When power outages occurred at the hospital Carol and others hand pumped individual iron lung units for patients with Bulbar Polio. She received her RN there, and went on to graduate from the U of U with a BS degree in Nursing.

During her time at the U of U, she accepted a call from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to serve as a missionary in the Central States Mission—Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. Carol enjoyed her time there, and had many interesting experiences.

She returned to Salt Lake after working in California, and received a grant to continue her education at the U of U and earned her MS degree.

Carol applied her knowledge working in public health, as a school nurse, on call at the jail, as a psychiatric nurse and teaching at the U of U and the U of U Extension Division. She worked at Community Nursing Service and became the Director after Maxine Thomas retired from that post. Later, she did consult work throughout the state. She was asked to lay the ground work for IMC Home Health, which she did. Carol retired from First Health in 1995. She’d been volunteering in the library of an elementary school for a time, so continued to do so for another five plus years.

In earlier days, she enjoyed fishing in Utah streams or Idaho reservoirs. She had been active in sports at school. To relieve stress at a desk job, she tap danced on a smooth floor mat. Carol wrote a history of St. Mark’s Hospital. She was a published poet. She is also known to be a direct relative of Butch Cassidy.

Animals were always a great passion. She rescued and raised dogs and cats and several kinds of rabbits, ducks and geese. Also, she lived where there was an orchard and had a large garden and shared the bounty with family and friends. It was a good time.

She enjoyed her friends, extended family, colleagues and neighbors.

She was welcomed on her next journey by grandparents, parents, both siblings and their spouses, friends and many more. She is survived by friends, extended family, colleagues, nieces and nephews.

Thanks for their care and skill to Sally D. Sharp, M.D. and Esther, R.N.; Scott Hacking, M.D.; Nischala Nannapaneni, M.D.; St. Mark’s Heart Center and Coumadin Clinic staff; Cynthia Lawlor, M.D.; St. Mark’s Senior Center staff; Mark Mariani, M.D. and Portia, RN; William Bogus, O.D.; Mandi Rasmussen.

As per her wishes and due to the Pandemic, a graveside service with very limited attendance will be held 11:00 a.m., August 15, 2020 at Wasatch Lawn, 3401 South Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah. Masks and social distancing will be observed.