Obituary for Carrie Louise McAdoo : April 20, 1943 to September 9, 2024

Carrie Louise McAdoo passed away peacefully on September 9, 2024, after a long battle with skin cancer.

She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on April 20, 1943, to Teresa Alvina Rodby and Lawrence Stewart Farrell. They moved to Long Beach, California, when she was an infant, and then to Azusa where she attended kindergarten through high school, graduating from Azusa High in 1961.

After high school, she met Donald Carl Harner working at Aerojet General and she married him at age 19. They had two children, moved to Grass Valley, California, and remained married for 22 years. She worked for various doctors, Grass Valley Group, and Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital between 1971 – 2004. In 1984, she met the love of her life and her best friend, Mark McAdoo. They married in 1985 and, in 2009, moved to Yerington, Nevada, where Carrie helped Mark run the Weed Heights RV Park.

She loved to go camping, quad riding, fishing, and rock hounding with Mark. Also with Mark, she helped maintain the flowers and grounds at the Yerington United Methodist Church for many years. Carrie’s love of music and singing was paramount to her happiness. She sang in harmony with her sisters from a young age and in her church choirs. Carrie was known for her generosity, always giving to others in need. She loved her flowers and brightened others’ days with bouquets. In her next life, she wishes to become a piano player, an ice skater, and a rocker of babies in hospitals.

Carrie was preceded in death by her son, Jon Carl Harner, and her sister, Patricia Beaumont. She is survived by her husband, Mark, her daughter, Kimberly Anderson, her son-in-law, James Anderson, their children, Kierstin and Wyatt Anderson, as well as Mark’s daughters, Michele McAdoo and Jolyn Brown, her sister, Linda Herrington, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Carrie taught us how to be compassionate and never be quick to judge others for you have not walked in their shoes. We will see her in every butterfly, rainbow, hummingbird, and lilac bush. May the Lord bless her and keep her until we all meet again.

Keeping with her wishes, no services will be held.  Family and friends are invited to sign her online guest book at www.FRFH.net

Arrangements are under the direction of Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home, 25 Hwy 208 Yerington, Nevada 89447 (775) 463-2911.