Carole Garnett-Wheeler

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Carole Garnett-Wheeler was a member of the U.S. women's swim team during the 1924 Paris Olympics. After retirement, she coached swimming and diving. Her first husband, an army colonel died in a car crash; and she subsequently married Henry S. Wheeler, a mayor of Newport. She was active in her community, serving a term as president of the Rhode Island Republican Women's Club. Garnett-Wheeler was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1968.[1]

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  1. ^ "Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame: Carole Garnett (Wheeler), Inducted 1968". www.riheritagehalloffame.org. Retrieved 2017-11-18.


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