Carol M. Dimick's Obituary
Carol Marie Dimick was born on September 10, 1937, in Kansas City, Missouri. She was the oldest child of H.E. “Ted” & Hazel Dimick. Carol passed away of complications from Alzheimer’s disease on Monday, January 16, 2023, at the Villages Of Lake Highlands in Dallas, Texas.
Carol grew up in Minneapolis, MN, near the MSP International Airport where her father Ted worked as an engine mechanic for Mid-Continent Airlines. She loved telling stories about growing up there with her friends, especially playing with them at the beautiful parks in the area featuring Lakes Hiawatha and Nokomis, and Minnehaha Park on the shores of the Mississippi River. She graduated in 1955 from Roosevelt HS, and she’d said that she’d never planned to leave her home in Minneapolis. However, Mid-Continent was purchased in 1952 by Brannif Airways and in 1956 the airline moved the MSP based operations to Dallas Love Field. So, Ted, Hazel, Carol, and her brother Roger made the move to Texas and settled in their new home in Richardson.
Carol was a devoted mother and homemaker when her children Tracy & Mike were young, and she volunteered for many school organizations; including a stint as a Cub Scouts “Den Mother” for Mike. When she became divorced, she went to work outside the home. She worked as a bookkeeper at several Dallas area businesses between 1976 – 2012, including The Stewart Company, Village Kitchen Foods, and Hawkins-Wellwood Custom Homes. She also worked part time in retail for Sears Company for many years during that time, mainly to fund her love of travel. She loved to take trips with her friends and was fortunate to have visited Europe multiple times. Carol also cherished the memories of her 2 trips to Israel; she always loved to share pictures of places in the Holy Land where she’d visited.
Carol and her parents were charter members of St Luke’s Lutheran Church in Richardson, Texas. In fact, the Wildwood Chapel at Restland where her services are being held was where the initial St Luke’s Lutheran community met and held weekly worship services. She was always so proud of her church, and her family’s role there in those early years. It was there that she learned to put her faith and trust in God, and though she was tested often in her life through many trials and personal tragedies that faith indeed always sustained her.
Carol was predeceased by her parents, and her children Tracy, Grady, and Susan (who died in childbirth). She is survived by her brother, Roger L. Dimick and his daughter Kimberlee of Houston, her son Mike Mahurin and wife Holly Pritchard of College Station, her son in law Sam Golden of Waco, her grandchildren including Patrick Mahurin of Augusta, GA, Bobby Mahurin of Dallas, Samantha Haberle and her husband Fred of Lorena, Whitney Dudley and her husband Bill of Godley, and Cameron Golden of Dallas. She is also survived by her great grandchildren, Holly and Dylan Haberle, and friends Margaret Freeman and Ursula Peters of the St Luke’s Lutheran community.
Funeral services for Carol will be held Friday, Jan 27th at 1:30pm at Restland Memorial Park, 13005 Greenville Ave, Dallas TX 75243, in the Wildwood Chapel, led by Rev Linda Anderson-Little. A visitation will be held between 12:30pm and the beginning of the service, with a short graveside service to be held immediately afterward.
We celebrate Carol’s life and legacy, and while we grieve here for her, we are comforted in the fact that she’s been liberated from her broken body and is now in Heaven with Jesus, along with her family & friends that have gone before.
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