Waldo family photo.

Carol Waldo, a determined business owner who donated to children’s causes and opened the town’s first cannabis farm, died Dec. 31 at her Lutak Road home. She was 84. A graveside service at Jones Point Cemetery was held Jan. 4. 

Born Carol Jean Alex on Sept. 3, 1939 in Coon Rapids, Iowa, Waldo was the second of six children of equipment operator Ed Alex and his wife Marge. Eight years later, the…