Carol Ann Jaeger, 76 of Stoneham, CO passed away Thursday, December 6, 2018 in Loveland, CO. She passed peacefully due to complications from cancer. Though the quickness of the cancer's progression was unimaginable and shocking, even to her doctors, the fact that she did not suffer is a blessing beyond measure.

Carol was born October 3, 1942 in Limestone, Maine. She grew up in Vermont with three brothers and later attended nursing school at the Mary Hitchcock School of Nursing (located on the Dartmouth College Campus) in Keen, New Hampshire.

Carol's time as a nurse took her first to Children's Hospital in Boston, then to Gallup, NM where she worked for the U.S. Department of Health, serving primarily the Navajo Indian Reservation, then to Children's Hospital in Denver where, continuing what became her lifelong passion of caring for any and everyone, Carol served as a pediatric nurse primarily in the areas of (1) Surgical Recovery, (2) Emergency Room, and (3) Intensive Care Unit at Children's Hospital in Denver. Many of her peers considered her a "nurses nurse" and on occasions she was able to diagnose a medical issue that baffled the doctors.

In May of 1969 she met the love of her life, Bill Jaeger. Some sixteen months later they were married.  Thereafter, for all her days Carol's life revolved around her family, but she was so much more than just a wife, mother, and grandparent.  In every place she lived, she was a force and an interwoven fabric in the community.

She was active in church life and a counselor and spiritual mentor to many. She was caretaker to any and all, whether taking them into her home or taking herself, her nursing skills, and her compassion and love to anyone with any need.  She was the definition of selfless.

She was a first responder as a volunteer firefighter at 70. She was a dear, dear friend to more people than we can count.  In support of her kids and grandkids she went to roughly a million football games, 36 billion basketball games, and countless other events, because she wanted to do nothing more.

She was wonderful and will be missed by many—profoundly and forever.

Carol is survived by her husband Bill; daughter Rachel Jaeger; sons, Joel Jaeger and wife Christine, Daniel Jaeger and wife Angela and Nathan Jaeger and wife Martha; grandchildren Sage, Kiana, Parker, Carter, Macie, Grace and Luke; and one in the oven to be named later (!) and her brothers, John and Brent Gould.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Maxine and Philip and her brother Blake Gould.

Contributions may be made to one of the following: Chapel of the Plains – Missions Support, or Hospice of the Plains in care of Chaney-Reager Funeral Home, PO Box 1046, Sterling, CO 80751.