Carole Garnett-Wheeler (September 16, 1898 – April 12, 1978) was a competitive swimmer from Rhode Island. Born in Narragansett, Rhode Island, she was a member of the U.S. women's swim team during the 1924 Paris Olympics. After retirement, she coached swimming and diving.
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Born | Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States | September 16, 1898
Died | April 12, 1978 Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States | (aged 79)
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Sport | Swimming |
Her first husband, Colonel Thomas Ogden Humphreys and she divorced in 1935, and in 1936 she married Henry S. Wheeler (1894 –1967), mayor of Newport, Rhode Island. (Humphreys died in a 1936 car crash.)
She was active in her community, serving a term as president of the Rhode Island Republican Women's Club. Garnett-Wheeler was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1968.[1]
She died in Wakefield, Rhode Island on April 12, 1978 and was buried at Island Cemetery in Newport.
References
edit- ^ "Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame: Carole Garnett (Wheeler), Inducted 1968". www.riheritagehalloffame.org. Retrieved November 18, 2017.