Dr. Carroll Obituary

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

 NEWMARKET — Dr. Thomas J. Carroll Jr., superintendent of the Oyster River Cooperative School District, 58, of Wade Farm, died suddenly March 20, 2005, at his home in Newmarket.

Born June 14, 1946, in Canaan, Conn., he was the son of Thomas J. and Cecelia (Pozzetta) Carroll. Raised in Canaan, he had lived in Litchfield for 18 years before moving to Newmarket nine years ago.

He received his BA from Merrimack College, his MMT from the University of Lowell and his PhD. from the University of New Hampshire in 1996.

Dr. Carroll has been the superintendent of the Oyster River Cooperative School District for the past nine years. He deservedly earned the respect and admiration of students, faculty, community, School Board members and colleagues.

In the local community he served on the following boards: the Oyster River Community for Healthy Youth, the Southern Strafford Community Health Coalition, and Seacoast Educational Services. He was a member of the University of N.H. Center for Mathematics, Science and Engineering.

He provided state leadership with the Department of Education via the AYP Advisory Committee, the School Improvement Advisory Committee and the ESEA Task Force. He was also a member of the following regional and national groups: N.H. School Administrators Association Board of Directors, was one of two N.H. School Administrator representatives to the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) Governing Board, AASA Membership and Service Advisory Committee, Education Law Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

He was an avid N.Y. Yankees Fan!!!

He was predeceased by his parents and his son, Michael W. Carroll, who died Aug. 15, 1999.

He is survived by his wife, Kathleen (Sweeney) Carroll, of Newmarket; three children, Thomas J. Carroll III of Newmarket, Kacey Carroll of Boston and Tina Carroll of Boston; a sister, Linda Walsh of Lexington, Mass.; two nephews; one niece, and many cousins, colleagues and friends.

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Visiting hours will be held on Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Kent & Pelczar Funeral Home, 77 Exeter St., Newmarket.

A Liturgy of The Word will be held on Thursday at 10 a.m. from the Church of St. Thomas More, Madbury Road, Durham, with the Rev. Dan St. Laurent, pastor, officiating. 

Graveside services will follow in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Bedford, N.H.

Rather than flowers, should friends desire, memorials may be made to the Dr. Thomas J. Carroll Memorial Scholarship, c/o Blaine Cox, 36 Coe Drive, Durham, NH 03824.

To sign the guestbook or for more information please visit www.kentandpelczarfh.com.