Carol Elaine Shea

Born 1943. Carol left us on December 8, 2013 to join her son, Dan Shea IV, to be together with her brother Gary in his garden in heaven. Carol attended Roosevelt High School and received a master’s degree from UC Irvine and traveled extensively before returning to Seattle. Survived by her parents: Frank and June Dizard; sister Kathy Lind (Jeff); brother Glen Dizard (Sue) and many loving family and friends. Services and reception at Acacia Funeral Home on Monday December 16, 2013 at 11:00 am.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Snohomish County chapter of PAWS: PO Box 1037, Lynnwood, WA 98046, (425) 787-2500, or a donation in Carol's name to help fund research in brain, lung or breast cancers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center:

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

PO Box 19024, J5-200

Seattle, WA 98109-1024

206) 667-4399

(800) 279-1618

https://secure2.convio.net/fhcrc/site/Donation2?df_id=3440&3440.donation=form1

All are welcome to sign the online guestbook below and leave a special message for her family.

The Garden

If I should even have to leave,

Please don’t cry for me.

I’ll be sitting next to Jesus,

Writing poetry.

I will send my words back to earth

Written on the tips of hummingbird wings

And you will hear my heavenly thoughts,

Each time a hummingbird sings.

I’ll be working in the garden,

Side by side with Lucy and Gene,

And we will grow the tallest sunflowers

The Heaven has ever seen.

We will plant carrots and potatoes, lettuce, wheat and corn,

And you will see my likeness, each time a grandchild is born.

We will plant the garden full and tend it with a caring hoe.

I prayed for a lot of miracles but now I see it’s true,

The only miracle I ever needed was when God led me to you.

Tell the kids I’m very alive,

No need for them to despair.

Now they have their very own angel,

Watching over them, ever there.

And when it is your time to come,

OH! What a garden you’ll see.

And you won’t have to do any work,

just come sit in it with me.

~ By Gary Dizard ~