Carol Hager

Waddles was a very fortunate duck. One that was cared for and passed down generation after generation.  

In 1912, the year his grandaughter Carol was born, the artist Dok Hager created Dok’s Dippy Duck, which enjoyed a run in The Seattle Daily Times. When Dok lost his eyesight in 1925, his children George and Mary took over the artistic and writing duties and renamed the duck “Waddles.”  The Adventures of Waddles continued on under the Hager children’s stewardship in the Christian Science Monitor until George’s death twenty years later in 1945. From there, Waddles was adopted by George’s daughter Carol Hager and her husband Ray Carlson before releasing Waddles into the wilderness, and history, in 1953.

Carol Hager Carlson (June 13, 1912 – Date of Death unknown)