Carol Ann Gutierrez

Carol Ann Kelly Gutierrez, 74, a seventeen year resident of Ocean Shores, passed away at her home there Wednesday, July 22, 2015. She was born in Elma, WA on December 11, 1940 the daughter of Harry M. and Mabel (Larson) Kelly. She graduated from Hoquia m High School in 1958 and also from Grays Harbor College in 1960 with training in waitressing. She was very proud of this training. She was a civilian employee of the US Air Force and had been a waitress in Oregon, California and for a time at the Morck Hotel in Aberdeen. Also, she took up housecleaning jobs. She had also lived in Michigan and Tennessee, coming back to the Harbor in 1979. She worked at the Wonder Bread and Hostess Day-old Store in South Aberdeen. Carol enjoyed housecleaning, homemaking and also gardening and decorating, making nearly every task special in her own way, helping others any way she could. She is survived by three daughters: Merilee Barnes and Nicole Day, both of Ocean Shores and Cindy Marsing, Talent, OR; a son: Shawn Day, Ocean Shores; a sister: Jacquelynn Rowland, Hoquiam; and also seven grandchildren and many friends with an family type relationship with the Holman family, Peggy, Don, Carolyne and Rosalia. A celebration of Carol’s life is being planned for a later date and it will be announced in the Daily World. The family suggests memorials may be made to Merilee Barnes to help defray funeral costs at P.O. Box 84, Hoquiam, WA 98550 A card of condolence with a memory or a message may be sent to the family at www.fernhillfuneral.com Arrangements are entrusted to Fern Hill Funeral Home, Aberdeen.