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CAROLYN LOUISE BERRY Born November 28, 1922 in Lakewood, OH to her parents, Arthur Chance Berry and Isabelle Dorothea (Cottrell) Berry and died February 18, 2007. Carolyn grew up in nearby Olmsted Falls, OH. She attended Cleveland College (of Western Reserve University) and Baldwin-Wallace in the early 1940s, taking art and home economics courses. She met her future husband, Harry, a mathematics student at Baldwin-Wallace College, through his sister, Vivien. Harry graduated from college and joined the Army in 1941, and Carolyn helped with the war effort by assisting on scrap collection drives, drawing blood for the Red Cross, and working in a Cadillac factory making Army tanks. She corresponded with Harry throughout the war while he was island hopping in the South Pacific with the 37th Division, 145th Infantry from New Guinea to the Philippines. They were married on February 25, 1946, a few months after his discharge, and headed to San Antonio, TX, and Mexico in a 1941 Chevy convertible for a honeymoon. Three boys - Peter, Berry, and Harry, Jr. - were born in as many years and made for tight quarters in a tiny one-bedroom trailer. Harry was a seismograph crew chief, which took them to a series of small, dusty west Texas and southeastern New Mexico towns for fourteen years. Finally they settled in Roswell, NM, for the next four decades. The boys went off to UNM and NMSU in the mid-sixties, and Carolyn worked at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, which suited her artistic interests and talents. She won a competition for a bust of the scientist Robert Goddard and a blue ribbon at the Southeastern New Mexico State Fair for another bust. She was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and later St. Thomas a Becket Episcopal Church. Carolyn and Harry were active in the Roswell chapter of the Great Books Club for many years. These activities led to several long term friendships. A few years after Harry died, she moved to Rio Rancho to be near her children and grandchildren and to live independently at Sandia Springs Senior Living Community, where she made several friends. She came to appreciate her new home, often taking walks on the nearby recreational trail, which offered panoramic views of the Sandia Mountains and Rio Grande Valley. Throughout her life she was very concerned about social issues and donated money to scores of organizations like the Congress of Racial Equality, United Negro College Fund, and Animal Humane Society. She also volunteered in a "soup kitchen" in Roswell, feeding the homeless, and she took one of these acquaintances into her home for a few years. Carolyn is survived by her sister, Nancy Utley and husband, J. Leland Utley of Fairview Park, OH; son, Peter Brelsford Ives; son, Berry Cottrell Ives and wife, Tara Triplett Ives; granddaughter, Atalie Liden-Ives; grandson, Zachary Arthur Ives and wife, Laura Schauer Ives; great-grandson, Harrison Jacob Ives; and great-granddaughter, Harper Louise Ives, all of Albuquerque. She was pre-deceased by her husband, Harry Crockett Ives, in 1998; and their son, Harry Crockett Ives Jr., in 2003. Memorial Services will be held at at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 505 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Roswell, NM 88201. Contributions in lieu of flowers should be sent to the Assurance Home Foundation, 1000 E. 18th St., Roswell, NM 88201.
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