UpdatedThu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:34 am CT
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Carola Minar McMullen, beloved and generous civic leader, educator and artist, died on Thursday, December 3, 2020 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. After an eight-year battle with lymphoma, she succumbed to Covid. She was 94.
She was born in Eugene, Oregon in 1926 and educated across Oregon in Salem, Medford, The Dalles and Portland, ultimately graduating from Salem High School and Willamette University. At Willamette she was a proud Delta Gamma who majored in sociology and religion and minored in Spanish. She had the foresight to understand that Spanish language skills would enable her to make a difference in social services in the West. She met her husband, David W. Minar, in a Presbyterian church group and they were married in Portland in June 1948. She was a trainee in human resources at Lipman Wolfe in Portland in their first year of marriage while David finished at Reed College before moving to Berkel