Carl A. Fairfield ’59

Carl died Sept. 24, 2024, at his home in Ferndale, Calif.

Born in Oklahoma, Carl graduated top of his class at Tulsa Central High. At Princeton, he majored in psychology. He was secretary of the Oklahoma Club and participated in Orange Key. He ate his meals at Dial.

After graduation Carl served a tour of sea duty in the Navy. One memory of his service was escorting Marine transport ships from Camp Pendleton to the Panama Canal during the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the Navy, Carl located to California. He earned a master’s degree in family, child, and marriage counseling from the University of San Francisco. Carl was involved in a variety of socially oriented activities, including employment for some 20 years as director of the Humboldt Senior Resources Center. (Although he was from the oil patch in Oklahoma, a summer job requiring him to stir crude oil with his bare hands dissuaded him from that line of work.)

Carl married twice, first to Susan Krause and second, for more than 45 years, to Ruth Puckett. His two marriages blessed Carl with a daughter; five stepdaughters; and several grandchildren, with all of whom he maintained close relations over the years.