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and served as the junior national director of the association from 1960 until 1962. He also served on the board of directors of NAD from 1960 to 1967. He then held the secretary-treasurer, vice president, and president roles at NAD between 1974 and 1982. His credentials led him to serve as a member
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during the last years of his life with his second wife, Carol. She was a retired professor of communications at
Gallaudet University. She, like her husband, had become deaf at an early age. Carol died on November 28, 2012, in Summerfield, Florida. The cause of death was reported to be complications
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Garretson's first marriage with Audrey Watson
Garretson with whom he had two daughters, Randee Garretson and Shelley Garretson, ended in divorce in 1953. After that, he was married for 57 years to Carol Jean Kaull Garretson with whom he had three daughters – Kyrie Garretson, Kaja Farnsworth, and
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