Carol Mae Quigley

Carol Mae Woodruff Quigley was born on March 17, 1944, to E.B. and Edna (Will) Woodruff. She grew up in the town of Correctionville, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Cushing, Iowa. In high school she was active in music, basketball, and cheerleading and was homecoming queen her senior year. She also taught swimming and piano lessons. During her senior year her parents died four days shy of two months apart. Her uncle Lyman (her dad’s brother) from Wichita, Kansas, came up and stayed with her so she could finish high school in her hometown.

After that, her cousin and her family took her in and made her part of their family where she always felt loved.

She attended Wayne State College her freshman year, transferred to the University of Northern Iowa her sophomore year and went back to Wayne the next two years to get her teaching degree in business and a minor in home ec.

Her first (and only) teaching job was at North High School in Omaha.

She met her husband at a swimming pool in Omaha the summer after she graduated. He told her to put her towel down beside him and he would take care of her. They became engaged in September of that year and were married on December 17, 1966.

To this union two children were born. She was a full-time mom for several years until she and her husband bought a custom picture framing business in Dundee. Her husband died in 1996 and she continued to operate the business (with the help of long-time employee Wendy) for nine more years retiring in 2005.

After living in Keystone for 38 years she moved to a townhome and enjoyed watching them mow the grass and scoop the snow!

She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Chapter EY PEO, Eastern Star, Assistance League of Omaha, Town Hall, RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) and a lifetime member of the Boyd School PTA. She was a past member of the Omaha Executives Association, the Executive Women’s Golf League, and the National Association of Women Business Owners.

Carol succumbed to a short illness on April 8, 2026. Her parents and husband preceded her in death. She is survived by her children, James of Vermillion, South Dakota, and Jill of Omaha; her cousins – “adopted” brother Rod (Gayle) Hansen of Grimes, Iowa; her “adopted” sisters – Pam (Bob) Corbin of Lompoc, California; Candi (Dennis) Schlines of Wynot, Nebraska; and Cindy Beckman of Wayne, Nebraska.


VISITATION: Friday, April 17, from 5 to 8 pm at Braman Mortuary at 1702 N. 72nd Street. SERVICE: Saturday, April 18, at 10 am at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2725 N. 60th Avenue


Memorials to Immanuel Lutheran Church or the P.E.O. Home in Beatrice, Nebraska.