Meet Carol and Don Wait

Carol was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and Don grew up in Ohio; they met at Michigan Tech, on the upper peninsula of Michigan. (Safe to say the worst winter they’ll see in Harrisonburg, by comparison, will feel like a spring picnic day to them!) Both had careers working for Corning Inc - Carol as an analytical chemist in the research department and Don as a manufacturing engineer.
They chose Sunnyside for its location near one of their kids, a daughter and her family who live in Waynesboro. They also have two sons and six grandkids (with two more ‘on the way’ by upcoming marriage) and one great-grandchild in Kentucky who’ll be one year old in December.
Carol’s into knitting, reading, water aerobics, and cooking, but they share a passion for travel. They’ve visited all seven continents and 49 states! And they’re off again for several weeks in January to England and Ireland to visit a granddaughter in graduate school in Dublin, and to attend a grandson’s graduation from King’s College in London. They plan to continue their passion for travel as long as health permits and consider their life at Sunnyside “always an adventure.”
--Jim Kellett, Resident Curmudgeon “The older we get, the better we were” - Lewis Martin