Madison—Dr. Carol Rose Giltz died peacefully at home on Saturday, May 25, 2002, after living the last five years of her 51 years with the diagnosis of breast cancer. Carol was born on March 7, 1951, in Greencastle, Ind., the daughter of Max E. and Retha Pearl Giltz, and step-daughter of Betty Giltz. She is survived by Candye Andrus, Martha Giltz, Barbara Smith Brown, Paula (Terry) Sutherlin, Michele Adams, P. Randolph Merrick, Tracy (Tim) Williams, Thomas Lee Gorham III (Jessica), Drew Evens, Tanner Sutherlin, Jake (Jenny) Holley, Sydnie Adams, Payton Williams, Gavin Gorham, Wayne (Erica Johnson) Ohlrich and Miles Ohlrich. She was preceded in death by her parents; her stepmother; her aunt, Gayle Wiley; and her dear friends Elizabeth Schowalter Ohlrich and Ruth Knoble Schowalter. 

She was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and earned her medical degree at Indiana University, where she was elected to the honor medical society, Alpha Omega Alpha. 

Dr. Giltz was trained as a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin. Her clinical practice focused on adolescent/young adult medicine. Her early career was spent with the University Health and Counseling Services at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. More recently, she was a highly respected physician at University Health Services, University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of her favorite roles, besides caring for her patients, was teaching medical students and residents. Also, this past school year she took great joy in volunteering with third graders at Emerson Elementary School. 

Carol has an incomparable generosity, a tender heart, a wise spirit, and she held family and friends in high esteem. She loved red wine, good food and reading. She enjoyed running, cross country skiing, hiking, traveling and Badgers basketball. She finished two American Birkebeiners and two marathons, the Twin Cities and the Chicago. She even did the Kortelopet this February and the Capitol 10K Run in Austin, Texas, on April 7. Carol was, in her friends’ estimations, an expert birder, but in her typical modesty would admit only to being a passionate and avid birder. True to her indomitable nature, she lived with a cheerful optimism until the time of her death. All of us who love her wish her happy birding. 

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 9, 2002, at the Unitarian Meeting House, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison, with reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Madison office of The Nature Conservancy, 633 W. Main St., Madison, WI 53703 (Carol has a particular affection for the Baraboo Hills), or to the Madison Audubon Society’s Goose Pond Sanctuary, 222 Hamilton St., Madison, WI 53703.