Caryl was my sister, and with triumph, she passed from this life to a life eternal on June 12.2023. Cause of death – too many birthdays.
This is a little of her life.
Her parents were Marty and Julie Hanna, and Caryl was born on September 16, 1941, at the Community Hospital in Bowling Green, the brick home on W. Wooster, between N. Grove and N.Maple; it still stands, but is now empty.
Caryl was raised at 607 W. Wooster Street, in Bowling Green, in the brown bungalow between Gorrell and Eberly, opposite Meeker Avenue.
As a child she would run as fast as she could, with pigtails flying, east on Wooster Street, past the County Orphanage to the B.&0. Tracks, long ago torn up, into the arms of her father, as he was walking home from work.
Caryl learned to swim at the old Park Pool, and later taught in the Sawdey Swim Program, where she coaxed the little kiddies into the water.
Caryl attended the old Church Street Elementary School, where the City Hall is; then the Junior High, where the Senior Center is, and then the Senior High, where the Green Space is, graduating in 1959. Caryl graduated from Northwestern University in 1963, where she was a kappa. Upon Graduation she was recruited by the Warren Michigan Schools, where she taught Speech and English at Cousino High School, in the same room for 35 years.
Caryl had no children, but over the years she nurtured hundreds of Teenagers; many of whom became life-long friends, visiting her, and staying in touch long after she retired. Caryl had an exceptional talent for Friendship.
On April 21, 1973, Caryl married the love of her life, Jim McCormick, of Detroit. They were married for 44 years, until his death in 2017. In 1998, Jim and Caryl retired and moved back to the family home in Bowling Green.
Caryl is survived by her two stepchildren, Mary Lee McCormick Corradetti (Jim) of Chicago, and Michael McCormick (Margaret) of Birmingham, Michigan, and by me, Drew Hanna, her younger brother. Caryl’s two other brothers, M. Shad Hanna and Hal Hanna, predeceased her.
Following Jim’s death, Caryl joined Kiwanis; enjoying the Friendship and Service she found there.
While living in Detroit, Caryl was an active member of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church, and then the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green.
For many, many years, Caryl was a Volunteer in the Crossroads Bible Study, grading hundreds of Bible Assignments for Prisoners throughout the United States.; the Prisoners saw Jesus in her.
Throughout her life, Caryl trusted Jesus as her Savior, trusting in his love and grace, and showing God’s love, and being Christ to everyone she met.
A woman once washed Jesus’ feet with her tears, and Jesus said “She loved much.”; the same could be said of my sister.
