August 25, 1936 - February 24, 2006
Funeral services for Louise Carol Carlisle, 69, will be held at 11 a.m. March 4 at Gorman Funeral Homes – Converse Chapel in Douglas, WY with Pastor Eddie Nipper of Fairview, OK, officiating. Interment will be in Fairmont Cemetery in Spokane, WA, on March 11. Ms. Carlisle died Feb. 24, 2006, at Memorial Hospital of Converse County following a lengthy illness. She was born August 25, 1936, in Pasco, WA, to Jack and Hanna (Cooper) Carlisle. She was reared and educated in Pasco, Richland and Northport, WA. She graduated from Columbia High School in Richland with the class of 1954. She worked in advertising with the Spokesman Review in Spokane and with the Oregonian in Portland, OR. She moved to Shirley Basin in 1976 to be close to family and was employed by Pathfinder Mines, changing careers from office work to ore truck driver. She moved to Douglas, WY in 1984 and worked for Powder River Coal at the North Antelope mine. She retired in 2004 and remained a resident of Douglas, WY until her death. She enjoyed her family, the Red Hat Society, traveling, and the companionship of her four-legged friends, Maggie, Gretchen and Hershey. She was baptized into the Southern Baptist Church in Shirley Basin in 1976. She is survived by her sister Beverly DeWitt of Moorcroft; nephews and their families, Craig DeWitt of Hanna and Justin DeWitt with the U.S. Navy in Kailua, Hawaii; numerous relatives in Washington; and special friends of Douglas, Steve and Jane Osborne, Peggy Schmidt, Brooke Haigler and Joy Johnson. She was preceded in death by her parents. Gorman Funeral Homes – Converse Chapel of Douglas, WY is in charge of the arrangements.