CARBONARO, GLADYS - A Canadian daughter nee: Ahearn of Saint Laroque and Tignish, PEI - Gladys passed away April 16, 2011 subject to the ravages of Alzheimer. Hers was a glorious stay in time having been survived by her husband Pat Carbonaro fifty-two years, her three children, Michael, Nicholas and Concetta, all college graduates, six grandchildren, an older sister Marie Gaudette of Tignish, PEI, Canada and an older brother Elmer Ahearn of Saint John, New Brunswick. When nursing in NYC she met her husband at Club Dominicana, Catholic Church a Friday night social event. It was a period following WWII, when Canada and the USA were reestablishing themselves as was Europe, settling into families. Gladys and Pat married in 1958. Gladys two year nursing education from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada was wanting in NYC, so she decided to upgrade her nursing with a college Baccalaureate Degree challenging her husband that he had his. She was a woman that aspired achievement since her background was such that spelled "can do" Canadian philosophy, reaching out to more productive nursing areas. Then economic conditions shuffled into unknown, uncharted times. The hospital that Gladys worked in filed for bankruptcy at the same time her husband's company filed for bankruptcy. A relief to that 1975 business downturn was Pat's company interest in expanding the Canadian subsidiary. The family on that note relocated to Alberta, but the expansion plans for a Canadian Alaska Through Way never materialized. Canada however encouraged its newcomers with opportunity and Gladys furthered her undergraduate degree to completion at the University of Alberta. It was a very positive change indeed. In the meantime California was undergoing an economic explosion into that of technology. Its findings because international and the University of Alberta, Canada immersed itself in it. Gladys not with her Baccalaureate of Nursing Degree found Silicon Valley, California extremely inviting and Pat and Gladys decided to investigate it. This area reported innovations and Gladys moved in as a newly fledged University degree Nurse by accepting employment with the Veteran Administration Hospital of Palo Alto, CA. Pat found a spot as salesman while the children continued their education through the University of Alberta. Now the area Gladys worked in encouraged her to upgrade further her medical knowledge to that of a Masters Degree in Nursing. With time on her hands, her husband working in shifts, her children in college, she seized this as an opportunity to go for it. Her thesis was finished in 1985. Retirement then followed in 1993. She was indeed a never stopped doer, proud and happy of her accomplishments, devoted to family and profession. Ours was indeed a wonderful life together. Now she R.I.P. We miss her most dearly.