Carol Zibilich Fenner's Obituary
Carol Zibilich Fenner, a retired teacher, died at her home in Mandeville, LA on Sunday October 15, 2006 at 12:30 PM.
Mrs. Fenner was born and raised in New Orleans and lived in Mandeville for the past 8 ½ years.
She was the daughter of the late Edward Louis Zibilich and Thelma McAllister Zibilich, and the only sister of Patricia Zibilich Matherne.
Mrs. Fenner attended St. Mary’s Dominican High School from which she graduated with honors. Early in her marriage, she worked with other parents to provide schooling for children diagnosed as having disabilities when that diagnosis was in its infancy and there were few educational opportunities and no public school programs for such children. After the last of her four children began school, she began the long journey to acquire her college education. While working full time, she attended night and summer classes at whatever university offered the courses needed. She graduated cum laude with a degree in psychology. She taught Religious Studies and Psychology at Dominican High School for twenty-nine years serving as director of the Senior Retreat Program and as a moderator of the National Honor Society. After retirement from Dominican, Mrs. Fenner worked part-time for the American Bone Marrow Registry and did some substitute teaching at Mandeville and Fontainebleau Senior High Schools.
She was a member of the St. Thomas Moore Parish associated with the Catholic Community of Tulane University serving students, faculty and a wide variety of parishioners from across the Greater New Orleans area and she sang in the 11:30 a.m. Mass Choir for many years. She received the Order of St. Louis Medallion from the Archdiocese of New Orleans for her service to that parish.
Mrs. Fenner was the mother of Kevin B. Fenner, Scott D. Fenner, Cheri Fenner Wax and the late Barry C. Fenner. She was the grandmother of Ryan Fenner Wax, the mother-in-law of Bradly M. Wax, and a close friend of Patricia Plauche and her two sons, Andrew and Christopher Pauche. Family, friends, former colleagues and the extraordinary people of the Tulane Catholic Center, whom she considered her beloved extended family, are invited to attend a Memorial Mass at the Myrna Claire Rogers Chapel at the corner of Broadway and Zimple Streets (on the corner of Newcomb College campus) on Wednesday October 18, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. Visitation on Wednesday from 5:00 p.m. until service time. A short, informal reception will follow at the Catholic Student Center (the yellow house at Audubon and Zimple Sts).
In lieu of flowers, the family requests a donation be made to the Hospice of St. Tammany, 1202 S. Tyler St., Covington, LA. E.J. Fielding Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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