When she was a young girl growing up, Susan Gebel remembers her mother Carolyn Ann, working hard to raise her family and to study to become a registered nurse. “She always wanted to give back to people and it took her eight years, going to school at night, to earn her nursing degree,” said her daughter. “She pulled all A’s and now that I am older, I am even more impressed with what she did and how she did it.” Carolyn Ann Gebel of Amityville died Nov. 16, 2009 at her Bunny Lane home after a lengthy illness. She was 70. Mrs. Gebel was born Dec. 25, 1938 in Astoria to Wesley Bullard and Florence (Scholl) Symington and had graduated Amityville High School in 1957. In addition to caring for her family and home, worked for Brightman’s Nursing Agency in Bay Shore as a registered nurse. She lived for a time in American Venice, before moving to Amityville. According to her family, she was a nature lover, gifted cook and avid artist who enjoyed traveling. In addition to her daughter Susan Maier-Munzer and her son-in-law Glenn of Amityville, Mrs. Gebel leaves behind her husband, Paul and son Paul D. and his wife Doris of Smithtown. Her grandchildren, Savanna and Rebecca Munzer, and Paul Jr., Mark and Zachary, and her great granddaughter, Norah also survive her as do her siblings: Eleanor Ketcham and her husband Spencer of Lindenhurst and Douglas Symington of Lindenhurst. She was predeceased by her son, John Maier and her brother, Wesley Symington. She reposed on Nov. 18 and 19, 2009 at the Powell Funeral Home in Amityville. TheRev. David W. Anglin, pastor, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Amityville, officiated at the funeral in the church on Nov. 20, 2009 followed by interment in Breslau Cemetery, Lindenhurst. Arrangements were under the direction of Powell Funeral Home, Amityville.