Carolyn Paul Fetzner Obituary

Carolyn Paul Fetzner attended Chartiers Valley High School in Bridgeville, PA. View the obituary, post a memory, or share a photo about Carolyn Paul Fetzner.

Graduation Year	Class of 1975
Date of Passing	Jan 12, 2020
About	Carolyn Paul Fetzner passed away at the age of 62, on Sunday, January 12, 2020, after a 2.5 year battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born in Pittsburgh, PA on October 6, 1957, and attended Chartiers Valley Senior High School followed by college at Edinboro University, earning a BS degree in Geology. She also pursued graduate studies in Groundwater Hydrology at Oklahoma State University. She initially joined Baker Hughes in Denver, Colorado, where she met her husband, Charles Fetzner. She worked as a well-site geologist on important oil and gas discoveries in the Wyoming Overthrust Belt. As one of the first women to attain this position, she was interviewed for a CBS Sunday morning show segment titled “On The Road With Charles Kuralt.” She then joined the EPA in Dallas as an Environmental Scientist. After several years, she took the same position at LCA Environmental, Inc. She was passionate about traveling the world and lived as an expatriate for 5 years each in Cairo, Egypt and Beijing, China, when Chuck accepted overseas assignments. In Egypt, she formed a nonprofit group called "Animal Friends" whose mission was to spay and neuter a massive population of feral dogs and cats. She also worked as a civilian observer to approve research protocol for NAMRU's West Nile Virus project. At Dulwich College, an international expatriate school in Beijing, she volunteered to present educational lectures on recycling, climate change, and the preservation of the Earth's natural resources and biodiversity. Carolyn even continued this after she repatriated to Houston with her husband to raise her two adopted daughters, Liann and Lindsay Fetzner. Left to cherish her precious memory, are her husband, Chuck Fetzner and her two daughters, Liann Xin and Lindsay Zhi. She is survived by her mother, Madeline Paul, and her brother, Steven Paul, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is also survived by her father, Thomas Paul and his wife, Gloria Paul, of Jacksonville, Florida, and their children: Laurie, June and Sandy.