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The email below was sent to Carolyn's artgroove.com website subscribers on June 8, 2002, which would have been Carolyn's 65th birthday:
Dear Friends and Collectors of Carolyn Ellingson, Early in 2002, Carolyn was struck by mesothelioma, an asbestos-related lung cancer. Following a brief illness, she died April 26th in Liberty Lake, WA, where she had relocated April 1st to live with family. A memorial celebration, fittingly moving and spirited, was held May 18th in her art studio at Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco. Carolyn's obituary, as it appeared in the May 8th San Francisco Chronicle, follows at the end of this email. Carolyn's web site, artgroove.com, will be maintained and developed indefinitely. Through her web site, we intend to provide both expanded access to Carolyn's art as well as additional information about her life. You may subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, the artgroove.com contact list (the "Open Studio" and "Auction Watch" lists have been merged to create a single contact list), which we will use for email updates of significant developments: http://www.artgroove.com/subscribe.shtml Thank you for your interest in Carolyn's life and art. Randy Ellingson, on behalf of artgroove.com [ http://www.artgroove.com ] ELLINGSON, Carolyn Elynor - Carolyn Elynor Ellingson died April 26th in Liberty Lake, WA, where she had recently relocated to be with family. Carolyn had been a resident of San Francisco for the last 20 years, tirelessly pursuing painting and printmaking in her Hunters Point Shipyard art studio under her Artgroove copyright. Her art is dominated by bold compositions of vivid color in a non-representational form, and it will serve us well as a reminder of Carolyn's courageously creative approach to life. Carolyn was born in Chicago, IL on June 8, 1937, the daughter of Robert Emory and Eleanor Sturm Martner. At the age of 8, her family moved to Minneapolis, MN, where she spent the next 35 years of her life. She was married in 1956 to Ronald Karl Ellingson. She and Ronald raised 3 sons, and in the early 1970s Carolyn earned a Masters degree in Public Health Administration at the University of Minnesota. She left Minneapolis after divorce in 1980, and, after a brief 2 year stay in Florida, moved to San Francisco, where she lived happily until April of this year. Surviving Carolyn are her mother, Elynor Sturm Martner of Phoenix AZ; her brothers Glen Robert Martner of Fontana CA, and Brooks Emory Martner of Lafayette CO; her sons Jeffrey Dean Ellingson of Liberty Lake WA, Terrence Parker Ellingson of Boise ID, and Randall Jay Ellingson of Denver CO; and grandchildren Paige Decker Ellingson and Karl Decker Ellingson of Liberty Lake WA and Kelli Amber Ellingson, Allison Jane Ellingson, and Holly Marie Ellingson of Boise ID. A memorial celebration will be held mid-May in San Francisco. Memorial donations can be made to local Hospice organizations, or to Hospice of Spokane, which so freely and gracefully cared for Carolyn in the eve of her life: Hospice of Spokane, 1325 W First Ave Suite 200, Spokane, WA 99210.
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