Carol Y. Wolfe, 71, of Monticello, died at 4:28 a.m. Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Monticello Assisted Living and Healthcare Center.
Born Sept. 7, 1938, in Sullivan, she was the daughter of Hughie and Dortha Thomson Dix. She graduated from Fairbanks High School and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana State Teachers College.
Mrs. Wolfe had lived in the Logansport and Monticello communities, as well as in Gulf Shores, Ala. She taught at Delphi Community High School for several years, retiring in 1993.
Her marriage was to Fredrick "Fred" Wolfe on May 4, 1963, in Covington. He died Oct. 26, 1999.
Survivors include a son, David Wolfe (fiancée: Kimberly) of Monticello; two stepdaughters, Dawn Weatherford and Dinese Rutledge, both of Macon, Ga.; and a sister, Frankie Pohlman (husband: Bill) of Fairbanks.
Carol Wolfe was an inspiration to me during my high school years at Delphi. What a great person and teacher. She not only inspired, but mentored, mothered and allowed one to create as they joined in her classes. I am grateful to her for what she taught me and school work was not all I learned from her. I am so thankful that I was able to get in contact with her in January of this year and she wrote back on three separate occasions. Unfortunately she did not share that she might have been ill (don't know that she was), but hope she did not suffer.
This lady was a great person. She was a great teacher; but she was a better person. She was not only my favorite teacher in high school but she also lead Sunshine and she was a ray of sunshine. I remember she even invited us to her house once for a party and shared even more of her life with us. God sure did take a good one home when he took Mrs. Wolfe. I am so glad he put her here on earth to be the sunshine in our lives.
Jim Vianco (1962)
From Carol Bingham:
Carol Wolfe was an inspiration to me during my high school years at Delphi. What a great person and teacher. She not only inspired, but mentored, mothered and allowed one to create as they joined in her classes. I am grateful to her for what she taught me and school work was not all I learned from her. I am so thankful that I was able to get in contact with her in January of this year and she wrote back on three separate occasions. Unfortunately she did not share that she might have been ill (don't know that she was), but hope she did not suffer.
Janet Nelson (Allbaugh) (1979)
This lady was a great person. She was a great teacher; but she was a better person. She was not only my favorite teacher in high school but she also lead Sunshine and she was a ray of sunshine. I remember she even invited us to her house once for a party and shared even more of her life with us. God sure did take a good one home when he took Mrs. Wolfe. I am so glad he put her here on earth to be the sunshine in our lives.