Carol Ann Williams

August 28, 1939 - January 18, 2021

My mother Carol Ann Williams-Iacobelli has passed on to heaven with our Lord, January 18th, 2021. Carol was born in Raton, New Mexico in August of 1939 to Arthur and Anna Iacobelli. She had six brothers and sisters and lived the most colorful life in Raton until she met my dad Douglas R. Williams. After a wild love affair with dad, I was born and she and dad moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 1975 where I was raised. My mom was fierce, she had a temper of ten demons when she was angry, and God forbid you were on the other side. However, mom was passionate, she was incredibly funny, caring, loving and unbelievably giving. She had a fire in her that would never think of giving up in any situation. And she meant every word she said. She was smart. Not in the schoolhouse way, but street smart and could get out of more intense moments with ease and style. She never battled with health issues; she was a rock of health that never ceased to amaze me. She was small but mighty with a heart for my friends and a mom to most of them. She loved to travel, she and my dad dragged me across the country every summer all my life in the back of a camper. She and my dad traveled too, she was able to get to Italy, her dream vacation. Above all that, she was a business owner, and a good one. She opened, owned, operated and worked six businesses most right out of her own home. Some were good, some weren’t and all I was fired from. My mom Carol was a dream mom. She never let me quit and raised me right. She was tough on me, but I needed it. I needed it to be at this point in my life now. Without her, I wouldn’t know strength. I love you mom.