Celebrate National Womans History Month!!

    Carol Lobeck

   “Life is ‘gooder’ than good!!”

Carol, a south Minneapolis native, is a lively retired nurse who did 14,000 steps daily before she broke her hip.  Now she makes her Village Shores two daily circuits around the post office and Super America. Her childhood dog named Suzi had this same family spunk — she went to the park daily and came home with a tennis ball!

Carol found moving to VS was a big homecoming to her south Minneapolis roots since her cousin Linda Hegel was already here on the second floor, good friend Pam Giebink is on seventh, high school classmate Janet Parrott is on tenth, plus Jerry and Susan Snyder are on ninth.

Carol is a 1958 graduate of South High Minneapolis.  She trained as an RN at the old Minneapolis General Hospital (now HCMC) where she worked for seven years in critical neurological care.  From there she took her nursing skills to the VA on a rehabilitation floor for young vets from the Vietnam war.

In 1964 she married her best friend “Bobby” who is still her best friend even though he died suddenly from a blood clot in 1989 at age 49 on his way home from the golf course (which is what he used to joke about wanting to be his way to go.)

Carol has a unique “labor” story with her daughter.  Carol was having contractions, so her husband Bobby was driving her to the hospital.  Would you believe, they met a HOUSE on rollers being moved from one location to another? The workmen insisted that Bobby had to pull into a driveway to let the house pass by.  Fortunately, Carol still got to the hospital in time.

Carol had two kids — their son Bobby and daughter Becky.  She worked in the office of her husband’s company with his remaining partners and then she renewed her nursing license at Normandale College.    This brought her a job at Mt Olivet Nursing Home in the Dementia/Alzheimer’s Unit, which she combined with a part-time job selling flowers at Bachman’s on Lyndale (her happy place).

Two favorite people in Carol’s life are 1) her granddaughter Megan, and 2) Carols’ sister Kathy who chauffeurs Carol around.

Carol believes in “going” cheerfully when her time comes.  In that spirit, she has considered getting a tattoo on her chest that says:   “DO NOT RESUSITATE.  NO CPR.  IF YOU MUST DO SOMETHING, MAKE IT A MANHATTAN!”