Carol Peterson Obituary

Carol Christie Peterson was born December 26, 1957, in Berkeley and raised in Oakland, California. She passed away March 17, 2016 in her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a long battle with breast cancer.

Carol was a graduate of The Colorado College, Class of 1979, where she earned a degree in Political Science. A member of the Delta Gamma Fraternity, she was also one of two female disc jockeys at the college radio station (KRCC). Carol earned a Law degree at Hastings College of the Law, University of California, in 1982. She practiced securities law in Denver, Colorado and the San Francisco Bay Area during her twenties.

In 1989, Carol returned to Colorado Springs, CO and The Colorado College, where she spent a personally and professionally fulfilling decade as an Admission Director. For the next decade of her life, Carol was involved in various local business ventures.

After learning how to knit in third grade, Carol became a power knitter and she had a project (or ten) in her hands for the rest of her life.

Carol is survived by her sister, Ann Alden Zeise and husband Fred, in Milpitas, CA, her brother, Frank Pollard Peterson and wife Sue, in Florence, MT, and her life partner, John Wilson Cobb, in Santa Fe, NM.

A memorial service is planned in Colorado Springs, CO for Sunday, April 17 at 2:00pm at the High Plains Unitarian Universalist Church. The church is located at 1825 Dominion Way in Northern Colorado Springs, on the east side of Academy Blvd. (6400 N. Academy), between Lehman and Dublin.