Longtime local residents Karl and Carole Herklotz were honored by their friends and St. Rita Catholic Church family on Thursday, Sept. 17 during a goodbye party at Giuseppe’s Italian Eatery.
Moving to Royal Palm Beach in 1973, and becoming Wellington residents in 1987, the couple will soon be retiring to Ocala. Now great-grandparents, Carole and Karl have seen the area flourish.
“We actually saw Wellington emerge from nothing to what it is now,” Carole recalled. “I remember, the kids used to go out to The Acreage area and they used to hunt. They used to shoot snakes off of the back of their pickup trucks. It was very rural… You had to go all the way into town to get to the newest store.”
Their favorite part of living in Palm Beach County, Karl said, was raising their children here. “It was a nice place to raise kids,” he said.
Their new home will be an active retirement closer to family. Their youngest son, Jason, lives just a few miles away. Friends are welcome to keep in touch by e-mailing herklotz1@aol.com.
