Carol Jeannine (Prichard) (Dunwell) Dahl attended the University of Kansas and studied at the KU Medical Center to become a nurse. She became a psychiatric nurse, earned a master's and doctorate, and taught at multiple universities, including Arizona State University, Grand Canyon University and the University of Hawaii. 

She supervised students at the Arizona State Hospital and led educational tours to the Soviet Union and China. In the 1980s, she was the Director of Nursing at Phoenix Camelback Hospital, which served adolescents.

When she moved to Arizona in the 1970s, she joined the U.S. Army Reserves, spending weekends training with fellow nurses and doctors in the 403rd Combat Support Hospital, similar in spirit to the fictitious MASH unit inhabited by Hawkeye and Trapper John. The unit was activated for Desert Storm and spent months on the Iraq/Kuwait border in 1991, treating hundreds of U.S. troops and prisoners of war. She was proud of her service and her later induction into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame. 

She also joined the American Red Cross, serving in many disasters, including in the New Jersey center after 9/11, and with Hurricane Katrina survivors brought to the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in 2005, as well as responding to floods, ice storms, tornadoes and forest fires.

She was preceded in death by her first husband  Robert Dunwell and her second husband Richard Dahl who started the law library at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU.

Survivors include her two daughters, two stepsons, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

A celebration of her life will be held at 5 pm on      June 9, 2025 at the Scottsdale Elks Lodge, 6398 E. Oak St., Scottsdale, AZ 85257.