Carolyn "Carrie" J. Schuety (Wetherbee) age 68 passed away peacefully in her home, surrounded by her husband and children on Tuesday March, 3rd 2026 after a 2 year battle with cancer.

A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, March 14, 2026 from 1-4:00 p.m. at Nelson-Doran Funeral Home in Brainerd.

Carrie was born on Friday December 6th, 1957 in Brainerd, MN to George and Dorothy Wetherbee. She grew up on the family farm South of Brainerd where there was always work to be done. She often spoke about running the cattle and feeding the hogs. She told a story once about how George showed her how to milk a cow once and from then on, it was her job to milk the cows. They often used horses on the farm, but Carrie always expressed how she would rather ride the dirt bikes they had instead of the horses because you could control a dirt bike, but a horse had a mind of its own.

The Schuety's lived across the road from the Wetherbee's and Bruce became a prominent part of their family before he and Carrie became sweethearts. They were married on July 30th, 1983 at St. Francis Catholic Church in Brainerd, MN. Bruce and Carrie grew their life together staying close to family, moving just down the road from their parents, where they had two beautiful children Scott (Andrea) Schuety, and Aaron Schuety.

Carrie started working early on in her life at age 14 in the high school greenhouse. Mr. Haglin, the teacher who ran the greenhouse, soon realized what an asset Carrie was and encouraged her to apply and work for the local hospital, St. Joseph's. This is where she could grow and share her love of hardwork and ambition. Carrie took Mr. Haglin's recommendation and began working the switchboard at St. Joseph's before quickly moving up within the organization, finally landing a long-standing position in Revenue Integrity. She celebrated her 43 years working for St. Joseph's before retiring on January 2nd 2023. Carrie was able to enjoy one year of her retirement before beginning her battle with breast cancer. Carrie kept her cancer diagnosis to herself full heartedly believing that she would beat her diagnosis. She fought her battle silently but fiercely spending countless hours and days working on the farm, cutting wood with her family, and living her best life all throughout her treatments.

Carrie was passionate about her family and was always doing anything and everything to help anyone. She shingled countless houses, built houses, garages, and buildings, and cut thousands of cords of wood. Carrie always said the cure for anything "was going to the woods." While Bruce and Scott were cutting tree's down, you could always find Carrie moving brush, loading cut logs, and cleaning up while belting out her favorite songs for all the wildlife to enjoy. You could often find Carrie sitting in the garage watching her grandson Patrick create countless projects, or in the backyard swinging on the tree swing with her granddaughter Laura. On the worst of days Carrie would surround herself with her grandchildren and spoke about how they always made her life full of joy and happiness. It didn't' matter where Scott and Andrea lived Bruce and Carrie were always visiting and traveling to see them and the grandkids making many memories on the beaches of Florida. Bruce and Carrie enjoyed traveling and camped often at Federal Dam on Leech Lake. Carrie always professed her love and appreciation for everyone. She enjoyed baking, sewing/pillow making and upholstery, rhinestone work, painting, completing puzzles, and gardening. Carrie made the best homemade buns, frybread, fruit fritters, donuts, cookies, and noodle soup.

Carrie's nightly routine was to say goodnight to Aaron, but she always professed that she "had so many words she had to say in a day," and that if she didn't use them all up she had to use them up on him.

Carrie was a highly intelligent woman and had a love for numbers so much that she started an investment club that bought and sold stocks 10+ years as a group and continued on with her love of investments long after the club disbanded.

Carrie was preceded in death by her parents George and Dorthy (Eisel) Wetherbee, her sisters Margaret Meg Wetherbee, Linda Krueger (Wetherbee), Her Step- Father in law Paul (Louise) Lippert, Mother in law Barbara "Louise" Lippert (Schuety/Nelson), Father in Law, Charles "Chuck" Schuety, Brother in Law; Marvin Schuety, Sister in Laws; Joan Swift (Schuety) & Doris Schuety.

Carrie is survived and will be deeply missed by her husband Bruce Schuety, Sons; Scott (Andrea) Schuety, and Aaron Schuety. Siblings, Luanne "Lou" (Rodney) Alexander, Glen (Barb) Wetherbee, George "Marty" Wetherbee. Nieces and Nephews; Mindy (Joe) Koering, LeAnne (John) Miller, Jenny (Greg) Leidenfrost, Sarah Wetherbee, Vesta (Luke) Radke, Gwen (Mike) Scott, Amy (Jody) Lodermeier, Nathan Krueger, and Brandon Wetherbee. Two grandchildren Patrick (16) and Laura (13) Schuety. Brother in Laws; Gerald "Gerry" (Linda) Schuety, and Charlie (Cheryl) Schuety and Sister in Law, Barb Schuety.