Wahkiakum Eagle-August 1997

CARLSTAD, Elizabeth F. 	
	
  Age 92, of Colorado Springs, Colo.  She taught at Wahkiakum High 
School from 1939-1942 and 1949-1953.  She served as principal from 1949 
to 1953.  In 1949 she married Alvin Carlstad, a longtime resident of 
Cathlamet.  He served as engineer for Public Utility District No. 1 of 
Wahkiakum County until 1953.
  She was born in Rawlings, Wyo., the daughter of Francis R. and 
Florence M. Fentor.  She was a graduate of the University of Washington 
and worked hard as an English teacher to inspire appreciation of 
composition and literature in her students.  She enjoyed gardening, was 
an avid reader and wrote her memoirs as a gift to her family.  She 
retired to Vancouver in 1970 and moved to Colorado Springs in 1994 to 
live with her son and his wife.
  Survivors include her son, Robert F. Strand, a sister, Constance F. 
Hiatt of Portland; four grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
  She was preceded in death by a sister, Ethel R. Horton and her 
husband in 1967.


Elizabeth F. (Fentor) Carlstad
Possibly in Colorado Springs, Colo.  
ca. 1905-27 Aug 1997
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society 2005 from 
original newspaper collection.)