Carol E. (Boettcher) Para, of Eau Claire and Weyerhaeuser, moved to heaven on Monday, October 3, 2005. She had been at Sacred Heart Hospital receiving care for lung disease by a caring and compassionate staff. \r\nCarol was born in Eau Claire, WI on December 18, 1927, the daughter of Lester and Harriet (Hrubesch) Holbrook. She attended Eau Claire Senior High School where she graduated in 1945 and soon was on to a career with the Eau Claire Telephone Company as an operator. On her way to Michigan via train to her new career, she met her husband to be Elmer Boettcher. They were married on November 18, 1946, in Eau Claire. They resided in Eau Claire, where Carol put her career on hold to become a full-time homemaker and mother of three. In 1974 she resumed her career and began working for UW-Eau Claire in the security office as an operator/dispatcher. She also worked for Telephone Secretaries for many years. Elmer Boettcher passed away in 1991. \r\nCarol married Edward J. Para on November 23, 1992, in Las Vegas, NV. Together Carol and Ed enjoyed traveling, spending time with friends, and at their summer home in Weyerhaeuser where they lived for the past seven years. \r\nCarol had a delightful sense of humor and will be dearly missed by her family and friends. Survivors include her son, Richard Boettcher of Rock Falls; daughter, Pamela (Mark) Lovelien of Eau Claire; seven grandchildren, Richard, Russell and Randall Boettcher, and Graham, Claire, Seth and Grace Lovelien; many nieces and nephews; and many dear friends. She was preceded in death by her parents Les and Harriet Holbrook; her husband Edward Para; and her son Charles Boettcher.\r\nFuneral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, October 7, 2005, at Lenmark-Gomsrud-Linn Funeral Home with Father Edmund Klimek officiating. Burial will be in Rest Haven Cemetery in the town of Washington. Family and friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday and one hour prior to the service Friday at the funeral home.

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