Carrie M. White

Life throws you for many loops and hoops you are never prepared for. My mothers death really opened my eyes to see who are true friends and family. I would like to thank all of you who have been there for us threw this time of loss and helped me with moms memorial and took the time out of there busy schedule. I will always remember those of you who have been there for me and I know my mom would have been very grateful for those of you who came to her memorial. 
 
 
                                 "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
                                                                                                                                          ~Carrie M. White

Aw Carrie, it has been many years since you and I have connected - and now it saddens me that in the past year or so you and Martha and Pam and I had been planning a reunion - but never followed through.  What I now know is that before it's too late we need to tell everyone how important they are to us and that we shouldn't waste a moment - it can all be gone in a second.

As young women, we shared many wonderful times together, most people would say wild and crazy.  I say that we lived "life" 100% - to the max.  We did everything to the max - drank, danced, loved - and I am  grateful that those moments of my life helped me to become the person I am today.  And I am thankful that you were part of my journey.

Rest well sweet Carrie - I am POSITIVE that we will meet again and that we will dance and drink and love together once more.

This is still such a shock for me. I have known Carrie Lou (as I called her) since 3rd grade. They lived over on Seahurst. Trying to remember back that far is difficult. We went to View Ridge Elementary school, South Junior High School then Cascade High School together. We would leave at lunch a lot and go to Herfy's. Carrie drove a white Chevy Nova. I think it was a 64' a little white square boxie thing with red leather interior and I called it the Heavy Chevy. I remember driving it in a ditch one night. Hmmm...I wonder how that happened? hahaha  

Carrie met Chris and Paula, where I don't remember, thus introducing us to some undesirables which later took us to some great folks. We partied with Beth/Don Barker, Pam/Jim Edwards/Pat Edwards, Eddie, Chris, the list goes on, many of them gone too drugs/alcohol.

Carrie started dating Michael and one night Carrie and I went out in my 1959 VW, sitting in the front of On Broadway Tavern which was later Petosa. We had an old kool-aide pitcher filled with 151 Rum and Coke. Holy Moly we were smashed. Carrie proceeded to get out of the car and she rolled out, knocking her front tooth out. Boy was Michael ever mad at me. hahaha

Our favorite hang-over food was our lucerne garlic dip and chips.

Carrie married Michael and I was maid of honor, them producing 2 wonderful kids, Joseph and little Carrie. (by the way, my mom Juanita suggested Carrie called her daughter after herself and she loved the idea) I remember when they moved to Darrington and visiting. They looked like 2 hillbillies on the porch. hahaha

Jumping ahead. We lost touch a little through the years due to our lifestyle change but had kept in contact.

I remember her meeting Ralph and what a great guy he was to Carrie. Again, I was maid on honor at their wedding. What an honor twice.

Ralph at the time had a granddaughter Madelyn who Carrie loved as her own. She loved all her grandchildren and was good them all. Carrie was a good cook and housekeeper.

I am trying to remember bits and pieces of our life together. We would keep in touch in the past months and would laugh at our memories starting to fade and our illnesses that we are getting. And we would ask each other? How the hell did we get this age and make it this far?

We partied heavy so many years ago and lived to tell it but learned from it too. Carrie would always ask me how come my boobs always stayed so big and nice when I would lose weight? I would laugh and tell her I don't know, lucky I guess. We would trade clothes and jewlrey, fiddle with our hair and eat those crazy chips with garlic dip even not being hung over.

Damn her for leaving us so young and with so many people loving her. But thank you Carrie "Lou" for all my memories of us that nobody can take away. I have always loved you Carrie and you knew that even being apart for months at a time. 

You are at peace now "Lou" and I will see you again someday and we will be sitting side by side with our arms around each other eating chips with Lucerne garlic dip. I love you and peace.......Martha (Marce)