Carol Germann

2021. Carol loved to sing and had a beautiful soprano voice. She knew the words

to hundreds of hymns because, when they were young, she and her sister Gail

would sit on their front porch and sing their way through the hymnal.

Carol grew up on Sand Mountain in Alabama. When she graduated from high

School. She worked for a year at Peerless Woolen Mills in Rossville in order to

save the funds she needed to enroll in the Baroness Erlanger School of Nursing

in Chattanooga. While at Baroness Erlanger, she met her future husband, John,

through a chance meeting while both were doing favors for friends. It was love at

first sight.

After getting her nursing degree, Carol worked as a surgery nurse at the T. C.

Thompson Children's Hospital for many years until she quit to raise two

daughters. Once the children were both in high school, Carol got a part time job

paying medical claims at Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company. This

turned into a full time job. When Provident decided to exit the health insurance

business, the unit in which Carol worked was ultimately sold to CIGNA. Carol

began as a claims adjuster; then, Carol spent several years training claim

adjusters before becoming Quality Assurance and Training Coordinator.

After Carol retired, she and her husband John took care of John's mother as well

Carol's mother while their mothers were at nearby assisted livings.

Carol was preceded in death by her parents, Aubrey Culpepper and Betty Jane

Tinker as well as a daughter, Jennifer Germann.

She is survived by her husband of 56 years, John Germann, her daughter, Jill Generazio, grandchildren: Ethan Rutter, Nick Generazio, Mia Generazio and Olivia Generazio, sister, Gail Wade, and brother Michael Culpepper.

There will be a private family service in the Forest Hills Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the care of Chattanooga Funeral Home Crematory and Florist East Chapel, 404 South Moore Rd. East Ridge, TN 37412.

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