Richard Carroll - more information

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Category: Deceased notice
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Date: 7/17/2006
Time: 1:58:12 PM
Remote Name: 66.32.219.13

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This is a copy of an email sent to Jimmy Knight: Dear Jimmy, When I saw your 7/14/06 email about Richard Carroll's death, my heart sank. I visited Richard and his 2nd family a couple of weeks after our 45th class reunion in 2002. They treated me like royalty and Richard was in great spirits. I was looking forward to seeing him again, perhaps at next year's 50th reunion. So I called their home Sat. and talked with his 19-yr old daughter Elise. Richard was devoted to his family, and his daughter loved him dearly. She was delighted to hear about the class website and planned to visit it, since Richard had contributed news at times. She gave me the particulars about last rites. Richard will be buried today after a service in Mesa Verde Methodist Church (in Orange County, California) starting at 10:00 am PDT (1:00 pm EDT). There will be a Marine honor guard with a rifle salute. Richard was very loyally attached to the Marine Corps. I made arragements for flowers to be delivered to the visitation or viewing in a funeral home yesterday (Sun), with the following inscription on a sympathy card: "SEMPER FIDELIS Uldis Palde, USMC and Richard's 1957 classmates of Russell High School, East Point, Georgia." I hope there won't be any objections to this - If you'd like, you can post this email on the russell.com site. I'll get back in touch if you'd like more on Richard and my contacts with him and his family. Sincerely - Uldis in Stone Mountain