Carl, 77, died January 23, 1999, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born May 18, 1921, in Courtdale, PA. He joined the smokejumpers in 1945 coming out of the Marine Corps paratrooper program and had five training and four fire jumps that season.

Carl married Helen McGee in June of 1946 and he was a student at the University of Montana at that time. He is buried in the Southern Nevada Veterans Cemetery in Boulder City, Nevada.