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Mrs. Carolyn Blomgren
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Mrs.
Carolyn Blomgren, 81 years old, grew up in a small town in West Texas.
She went to college at Texas Tech University to study international
trade.
Mrs. Blomgren wanted to travel and see the world. Right out of school she interviewed with oil companies in Houston, hoping they would hire her and send her to South America. However, she graduated at age 20 and they didn’t want anyone under the age of 21 so she began teaching at a local school until other opportunities arose. “I was making $167 a month and driving a second-hand Chevrolet and I thought, this isn’t going to get me around the world,” so she joined the Navy. After officer training in Rhode Island she was off to the Pentagon to work in the logistics war planning office. Later she got into Navy Intelligence and then into recruitment. She was sent to Kansas City and spent her time traveling to eight different states recruiting college students as Navy Officers. That is where she met her husband. He was a F-86 fighter pilot for the Air Force. After they married she retired from the Navy to follow him from one assignment to the next. They traveled to France, Japan and China. She often entertained foreign dignitaries who wanted to get a taste of American life.
Mrs. Carolyn Blomgren is a resident at Magnolia Manor in Smithfield where she has resided since January 2010.
