Carolyn L. (Kraft) Whiting
Marriages
Jerry Whiting
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel page 4A - July 10, 2022
Carolyn L. Kraft
Whiting, 88, originally of
Grand Junction, passed
away at her home in
northern Idaho on March
30, 2022.
Carolyn grew up on a
peach orchard in the Grand Junction area and attended
Grand Junction High School. After graduation she went
to the University of Idaho, where she met her husband
of almost 68 years, Jerry. He predeceased her by a few
months.
In Idaho, Carolyn got a degree in education. She
then worked as an elementary school teacher in the US
and Canada for 20 years. While working as a teacher,
she earned a Master’s degree from Stanford, writing a
thesis about western US water resources. Starting in
the late 1970s, Carolyn used her scientific training to
work in the natural resource industry, with employers
that included the Solar Energy Research Institute (now
NREL) and Resources USA, a mineral engineering
consulting firm, both in Golden, and for the University
of Alberta in Canada. After her first retirement at 65,
she returned to her high school career as a baker and
continued to work till she was 80.
Carolyn is survived by her son.
Private services were held in April.
