Carol Lynn Eaton Johnston (May 31, 1940–July 26, 2012)

Carol L. Eaton from Omaha’s Westside High School attended Grinnell College, 1957-1959. Her freshman year she lived in Mears Hall and roomed with her high school classmate, Kay Rydberg. Her sophomore year she was a member of Young Republicans.

In 1959 she returned to Omaha to work for Mutual of Omaha for a year, after which she attended the University of Nebraska in Omaha for a year. After a brief marriage and divorce (1961-63) to Rudy L. Rezac, Jr., Carol moved to California, where she worked in a CPA office and took accounting courses.

In 1965 she returned again to Omaha and obtained a Real Estate and Insurance license, but left that to return to accounting.

In 1967 she married Dale Johnston, and the two of them owned a bar and grill in South Omaha and managed rental properties. After his death of cancer in 1989, Carol went to work for a brokerage firm.

Carol was survived by her sister, Catherine M. Eaton Varlomos; niece, Amy Olson; and great-niece, Mallory Olson.

Westside High School Class of ’57 — Omaha, Nebraska –Memories and Life Stories (Sept. 2007), http://www.greggmillett.com/WHS_Memories_and_Life.htm; Obituary: Carol E. Johnston, Omaha World-Herald (July 29, 2012), http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/omaha/obituary.aspx?pid=158796304#fbLoggedOut.