Carol Loella Dougherty, age 74, died from complications from corticobasal degeneration at her home in Greeley, Colo. with her family on Sunday, January 15, 2017.
Carol was born on June 20, 1942 to Norma and Clinton Anderson on a farm five miles east of Minnewaukan, N.D. After graduating in a class of 12 students at Minnewaukan High School in 1960, she attended the University of North Dakota. Carol graduated from UND in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree major in speech correction. She later received her master’s degree in speech pathology from Minnesota State University, Moorhead, in 1995. She began her career in Utica, N.Y., before returning to North Dakota in 1965, taking a job as a speech pathologist in the Lakota, N.D. public schools school system at Lakota, N.D. She met Jim Dougherty, a fellow teacher. They were married on July 2, 1966, in Minnewaukan. They moved to Glendive, where they lived, worked and raised a family for the next 38 years. Carol spent time raising their three children, but worked many years as a speech pathologist at different stages of her career in the Glendive public schools, for a collection of school districts in eastern Montana, at hospitals and the St. Labre School in Montana. In 1971, she was part of a group of mothers in Glendive who helped establish Christopher Robin Nursery School, which is the longest-running parent co-operative preschool in the state of Montana. In the 1970s, Carol became the director of religious education at Sacred Heart Parish in Glendive, and in the early 1980s, she was a library assistant at Dawson County High School. She rounded her professional career in speech pathology before retiring.
Jim and Carol moved to Greeley, Colo. in 2014. Carol enjoyed writing classes at the University of Northern Colorado, where she learned and was guided in writing her memoir. They also enjoyed the bible studies and faith community that they joined at St. Mary’s Church in Greeley, a special place to celebrate Easter and Christmas when their family gathered for the holidays.
Survivors include Jim; their three children, Mike and his girlfriend Michelle of Rochester, Minn., Brian and his wife Elsa of Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Ann and her husband Vincent of Evans; a brother, Harry and his wife Margaret and their two children, Eric and Cory of Weatherford, Texas; five grandchildren, Jack, Katherine and Martha of Rochester, Minn., and Logan and Katerina of Evans.
The funeral will be held at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 19 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greeley. Visitation is from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, January 18 at Stoddard Funeral Home in Greeley.
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