November 2, 1930 – October 25, 2021 Carol Mae Fries of Ojai, California, died peacefully at house along with her household on October 25, 2021 on the age of 90. The matriarch of a giant and rising household, Carol led a rare life and is missed by everybody she met. Carol was born in 1930 in the course of the Nice Melancholy in Cincinnati, Ohio, to 2 lecturers. As a younger lady, she excelled within the arts, designing clothes, making garments for her dolls, and designing her intricate dollhouse environments. She graduated from Western Hills Excessive Faculty (1948) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Throughout her college days, one among her clothes creations was exhibited within the college show case. Her inventive passions continued all through her life as she constructed unbelievable houses for her household, sponsored inventive applications in her kids’s faculties, and have become an achieved philanthropist, artist, and group chief. Carol attended Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, the place she studied training. She was a instructor when she met and married Charles W. Fries in 1951. She paid for her marriage ceremony gown, cake, and flowers with the cash she earned and saved on the job. Carol and Chuck moved to California in 1952 and began a really profitable household enterprise within the leisure trade. Carol was instrumental in her late ex-husband’s lengthy profession, which included the manufacturing of over 5,000 sequence episodes, 140 tv movies and miniseries, and 40 function movies. Carol established a strong household and group in Beverly Hills for practically 40 years. She loved entertaining, supporting the native faculties, and believing an excellent training was necessary. She acquired concerned within the training of all of her kids by offering funding and private involvement at school initiatives and actions reminiscent of sports activities, music, and the humanities. She conceived and arranged commerce festivals, festivals, levels and extracurricular applications. She used and shared her inventive and mental expertise and instilled them on everybody she met in her work, household, and group efforts. Carol has all the time made time over time to assist others and volunteer for charity. She was the president of Neighbors of Watts (NOW) in Los Angeles, California, and raised funds for faculties, households, and group enrichment applications. She was consistently concerned in fundraisers and led many occasions that supported the native communities wherein she lived. Carol’s house was a spot the place folks of all ages felt welcomed and hugged. She all the time made room on the desk and there was a lot to eat. Her pure capability to make others really feel included was certainly a particular present. Her heat and uncanny capability to pay attention deeply made her house a beacon for others. Carol moved to Ojai, California from Beverly Hills, Laguna Seaside, Hollywood Hills and Carpinteria to stay in a peaceable and non secular place. She was a loving, sort, loyal and beneficiant mom, grandmother, great-grandmother and buddy and is enormously missed. She is survived by her seven kids; Charles Fries (Jonna), Suzanne Fries-Hostka, Christopher Fries (Heather), Dyanne Fries, Mike Fries (Michelle), Alice Fries and Jonathan Fries (Lena), 18 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Her mother and father Alice and Ralph Thompson, her brother Robert Thompson and her son Thomas Fries (Debi) precede her in demise.
Printed by Los Angeles Occasions on October 31, 2021.
