Carol G. Wagner, helped restore Roosevelt site
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Carol G. Wagner, who played a major role in saving and restoring the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, died Saturday in Hospice of the Western Reserve, Cleveland. She was 77.
Born in Kentucky, the former Carol Gudgel graduated from the University of Kentucky and Buffalo State College. She taught kindergarten in the Sweet Home Central School District.
Known for her love of history, historic preservation and volunteer work, she led the Junior League of Buffalo’s Wilcox Committee from 1968 to 1971, which spearheaded the restoration of the former Wilcox Mansion, where President Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office in 1901.
Historian for the Junior League’s Decorator Show Houses, she recently published the results of her extensive research into the backgrounds of the houses.
Mrs. Wagner received the Junior League of Buffalo’s Susan Reid Greene Russell Award earlier this year. Less than a month ago, she also was given the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation’s President’s Award.
A former Snyder resident, she was a member of the Buffalo Trap and Field Club, the Buffalo Canoe Club and the Park Country Club.
Her husband of 39 years, Richard C., a Buffalo attorney, died in 2001.
Surviving are two daughters, Laura W. Gibson and Ellen M. Jones; and a brother, Judge Paul D. Gudgel.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in Christ the King Church, 30 Lamarck Drive, Snyder
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