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  Carol Carpenter Hubbard
Carol Carpenter Hubbard was born in Evanston, Ill., on Feb. 2, 1916, to Ida May Hayward and Thomas King Carpenter, she moved to Rye as a child and graduated from Rye Country Day School in 1932. In Rye her family lived at 66 Milton Road.
 She attended Northwestern University and graduated from Traphagen School of Design in 1936. On July 17, 1939, she married Ralph H. Hubbard at Christ's Church in Rye. After the wedding the young couple left for Shanghai, China, where they resided for two years.
Carol would leave China and return first to Rye with Ralph scheduled to join her soon after. He was in Manilla when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941. They then attacked Manilla and Ralph was taken prisoner with other non-combatants and was interned in Santo-Tomas Internment Camp. Two years later he was exchanged for Japanese nationals and returned home with 1500 others on the liner Gripsholm and reunited with Carol. Ralph immediately enlisted in the Navy to fight the Japanese in the South Pacific
During World War II, Carol not to be outdone, volunteered with the American Red Cross and served in Italy from 1944 to 1945. The American Red Cross was the sole nonmilitary agency designated to provide welfare and recreation services for the US expeditionary forces in World War II. With the official job description of “club services worker,” clubmobile crews, usually three young women, were tasked to prepare and serve coffee and doughnuts, and other reminders of “home” that might allow the soldiers to momentarily forget the stresses of war.
 
 The Red Cross women drove and serviced their own vehicles, and even camouflaged them if necessary to avoid enemy fire. They also distributed mail, handed out gum, candy and cigarettes, provided music from onboard record players and public address systems and listened, and listened, and listened to the stories young soldiers were desperate to share with someone from “back home.”
Mrs. Carol Hubbard Arrives in Italy for Red Cross Service
Carol C. Hubbard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Carpenter, 66 Milton Road, has arrived in Italy to serve the armed forces as an American Red Cross staff assistant. Before her Red Cross appointment, Mrs. Hubbard was employed by Eastern Aircraft, North Tarrytown, N. Y. She is a graduate of Rye Country Day School and attended Northwestern University and Traphagen School of Fashion.
RYE. NEW VORK FRIDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1944
 A nice long letter came to us from Mrs. Carol C. Hubbard, who is a Red Cross worker attached to the 34th Division doing clubmobile work. She is in Italy stationed with the Division, and her work consists of taking doughnuts. Etc. around to every unit in the Division and in spite of mud and dust she likes it. States that her husband Ralph, a Lt. j. g. in the Navy, was in the India-Burma theatre when she had last heard from him.
Friday, April 27, 1945 THE RYE CHRONICLE PAGE NINE
Carol was awarded an Army Citation: "For Meritorious Service given her fellow Americans through Red Cross", by Gen. Charles L. Bolte, U. S. Army.
"Mrs. Hubbard displayed at all times during association with the 34th Infantry Division, a deep and complete disregard for her personal safety and comfort in order that she could adequately bring refreshments and good cheer to the front line fighting men," the citation declared. "The meritorious service that Mrs. Hubbard has given her fellow Americans with the 34th Infantry Division is a source of genuine appreciation and reflects the finest traditions of the American Red Cross,"
Shortly after the war Carol and her husband moved to Buenos Aires for his work and started a family. They lived there for 17 years before moving to Greenwich in 1965.
Carol Carpenter Hubbard Greenwich, Conn., a former resident of Rye who served with the Red Cross overseas during World War II, died Monday December 1, 1985 at Greenwich Hospital after a brief illness. She was 69.
At the time of her death, In addition to her husband, she was survived by a son, Thomas R., a daughter, Mrs. Robert B.
Bennett, and a brother, David H. Carpenter, all of Fairfield, Conn.; and five grandchildren.
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