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Charles William Carroll
September 19, 1937 — September 17, 2006
Charles William (Bill) Carroll Charles William (Bill) Carroll, 68, a talented local author and beloved father, passed away at his Stantonville, Tennessee, home on Sunday, September 17, 2006. He was born September 19, 1937, in Stantonville to the late Gilcie William Carroll and Bessie Mae Lipford Carroll.
Mr. Carroll was raised in McNairy County and graduated from Selmer High School, where he played first base on the school baseball team and fullback on the football team. In 1955 he enrolled at the University of Tennessee, where he graduated in 1959 with a B. A. in English and Journalism. He subsequently obtained an M. A. in Public Relations and Communications from the University of Memphis. He has been a reporter for Scripps Howard Newspapers and has done freelance writing for numerous magazines and newspapers. He went on to enlist in the U. S. Marine Corps, where he served on active duty as a Sergeant from 1961 – 1963, and later in the Reserves.
Mr. Carroll’s work in the fields of Marketing and Public Relations took him abroad and offered him the opportunity for extensive travel in Europe and the Middle and Far East. He worked for Holiday Inns International for 11 years, including a posting in Brussels, Belgium from 1969 – 1972. He later joined Federal Express in Memphis and Honolulu, where he worked for 24 years in Public Relations and opening up new countries in the Middle and Far East before retiring back to his farm in McNairy County.
Bill enjoyed hunting and fishing, writing, reading biographies and histories, and was an avid St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan. He also liked long walks around his farm and Shiloh National Military Park and spending time with his family and many friends. His life-long passion for the written word culminated in the 2005 publication of Down at Carroll’s Store, a collection of individual stories and memories of his McNairy County childhood, first published as a regular column in the Adamsville, Tennessee Community News.
Mr. Carroll is survived by his sons Michael Carroll and wife Julie of Charlotte, North Carolina and John Carroll of Memphis, Tennessee; sisters Patricia Carroll Replogle of Collierville, Tennessee and Sandy Carroll Gaines of Pickwick, Tennessee; two grandchildren, Kendall Anne Carroll and George William Carroll, both of Charlotte, North Carolina; and fiancée Anita Hurst Moore of Selmer, Tennessee.
Mr. Carroll was raised in McNairy County and graduated from Selmer High School, where he played first base on the school baseball team and fullback on the football team. In 1955 he enrolled at the University of Tennessee, where he graduated in 1959 with a B. A. in English and Journalism. He subsequently obtained an M. A. in Public Relations and Communications from the University of Memphis. He has been a reporter for Scripps Howard Newspapers and has done freelance writing for numerous magazines and newspapers. He went on to enlist in the U. S. Marine Corps, where he served on active duty as a Sergeant from 1961 – 1963, and later in the Reserves.
Mr. Carroll’s work in the fields of Marketing and Public Relations took him abroad and offered him the opportunity for extensive travel in Europe and the Middle and Far East. He worked for Holiday Inns International for 11 years, including a posting in Brussels, Belgium from 1969 – 1972. He later joined Federal Express in Memphis and Honolulu, where he worked for 24 years in Public Relations and opening up new countries in the Middle and Far East before retiring back to his farm in McNairy County.
Bill enjoyed hunting and fishing, writing, reading biographies and histories, and was an avid St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan. He also liked long walks around his farm and Shiloh National Military Park and spending time with his family and many friends. His life-long passion for the written word culminated in the 2005 publication of Down at Carroll’s Store, a collection of individual stories and memories of his McNairy County childhood, first published as a regular column in the Adamsville, Tennessee Community News.
Mr. Carroll is survived by his sons Michael Carroll and wife Julie of Charlotte, North Carolina and John Carroll of Memphis, Tennessee; sisters Patricia Carroll Replogle of Collierville, Tennessee and Sandy Carroll Gaines of Pickwick, Tennessee; two grandchildren, Kendall Anne Carroll and George William Carroll, both of Charlotte, North Carolina; and fiancée Anita Hurst Moore of Selmer, Tennessee.
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