Carol Anne Young

HAMILTON - Carol Anne Young was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 13, 1953, to Harold and Marion (Jones) Young, she passed from this life on July 29, 2021, of natural causes at the age of 68.

Carol spent the first 5 years of her life in Richmond and then the family sold their bookstore and moved to Denver, Colorado where her father worked as a CPA.

They soon tired of city life and moved to the small community of Sedalia, Colorado when Carol was starting second grade. They spent their summers in a cabin up Jarre Canyon on the edge of Pike National Forest and after a couple years they made the cabin their year-round home.

Carol often spoke of what a wonderful place it was to grow up, riding horses with her friends, hiking, picking berries and sleeping in a tent up the hill from the cabin all summer. She loved being part of the Indian Creek Community and made many lasting friendships from her years there.

Carol was given an unbroken thoroughbred/quarter horse filly she named Rebel Miss and Miss became Carol's project. She would come home from school, bridle Miss and ride bareback at a gallop into the back meadows before it got dark.

After graduating from Douglas County High School in 1971, she attended Colorado Mountain College in Leadville and then Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison.

She had various jobs including rural mail carrier over Night Hawk and up along the Platte River, tutoring students and working as a clerk at The Denver department store before being named Director of the Castle Rock Senior Center. She enjoyed creating programs, overseeing the activities, and working with the senior citizens there for a number of years.

With both her parents now deceased she moved to Eastern Colorado to be closer to friends and she took a job as Head Librarian in Cheyenne Wells.

In the summer of 2001 while vacationing in Hamilton, Montana she fell in love with the Bitterroot Valley and moved there that fall.

Carol worked at Cardinal Properties in Hamilton from 2006 to 2019, before retiring. While working there she found great pleasure in helping the people who came in looking for places to live. She was always friendly and helpful. She considered herself very lucky that the people she worked with were also her good friends.

She enjoyed hiking the trails in the Bitterroot Valley the first few years she was there; she was the eternal student always taking classes and learning something new. She loved reading, working puzzles, playing video games and spending time with her friends.

Carol was always ready for a new adventure, she traveled to Colorado and Nebraska to see friends often.

She had a lifelong love of theater, she helped backstage and played in several productions at the Hamilton Playhouse. Carol also did some volunteer work with the Bitterroot Humane Society. She was an independent person, a loyal friend, always ready with a smile, and will be greatly missed.