Carol G. Schermerhorn

Moline, Illinois
Carol Forsyth Schermerhorn, 89, of Moline, Illinois, died Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Heartland Health Care Center, Moline.
Services are 2:30 p.m. Saturday, in Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, Rock Island, with the Reverend J. D. Georlett officiating. Burial is in Viola Cemetery. Visitation is one hour before the services at the church, Memorials may be made to the church. Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline, is serving the family.
The former Carol Grace Kennedy was born December 22, 1922, in Viola, Illinois, the daughter of Richard Royce and Jessie May Williams Kennedy. She graduated from Viola High School and Marycrest College, and received her masters degree from Western Illinois University. She married Wayne R. Forsyth on December 28, 1945, in Aledo, Illinois. He died June 13, 1979. She married George P. Schermerhorn on April 17, 1984, in Cancun, Mexico.
Carol was employed by Moline School District #40 as a third grade teacher at Garfield School for 30 years, retiring in 1985. She previously taught in a one-room school near New Windsor, Illinois. She was a long-time member of Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, Rock Island, where she had been active on the Session, as a Deacon, a circle leader, a member of Presbyterian Women, and taught Sunday school for many years. She loved being with her family and grandchildren, and her many friends. She and her husband George traveled extensively, and wintered in their home in Tucson, Arizona.
Carol is survived by her husband, George; two daughters and sons-in-law, Kathleen and Jack Reimers of Moline, and Jeannine and Jim Licandro of Bettendorf, Iowa; four grandchildren and their spouses, John Reimers of Lakewood, Colorado and his fiancée Michelle Johnson of Mount Vernon, Iowa, William and Dee Anne Reimers of Germantown Hills, Illinois, Luke and Jennifer Lawson of Bettendorf, and Jessica and Sam Garchik of Fairfield, Iowa; five great-grandchildren; and her sister, Evelyn Spitznas Norman and her husband Doug of East Moline.
Carol?s family invites friends to share stories and condolences and light a candle in her memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.