Hi, all -
Ancestry.com has access to a database of obituaries from the Boston (MA)
Herald (1991 - 2000), free for 10 days... although when you search on CARR,
you will also get every mention of the "Frank H. Carr Funeral Home, of
Charlestown, MA" and also the "Joseph A. Carr Funeral Home, of Everett,
MA".....
Headline: OBITUARY Dr. Francis J. Carr, Belmont surgeon, 77
Publication Date: May 23, 1995
Source: Boston Herald
Obituary: Dr. Francis James Carr of Belmont, a surgeon, died Saturday at
Chilton House in Cambridge. He
was 77.
Born in Boston, he was a 1940 graduate of Fordham University and a 1943
graduate of Boston University
College of Medicine.
Dr. Carr was commissioned as a captain in the Army after completing a
nine-month internship at Binghamton
Hospital in New York in 1944. He served in World War II as a physician for
the Corps of Engineers.
He completed his Army duty in 1947 and entered a residency program in
pathology at Tufts University.
Dr. Carr went on to surgical training at Mount Auburn Hospital and Boston
City Hospital. He opened a
general surgery practice in 1953 and worked on the surgical staff at Mount
Auburn Hospital and Sancta
Maria Hospital.
He was also a physician for the Boston Bruins for several years in the
1950s. He retired in 1988.
Dr. Carr served as secretary for the Cambridge Medical Improvement Society
for many years. He was a
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical
Association.
He was an avid golfer and a member of Oakley Country Club.
Dr. Carr is surivived by his wife of 51 years, Dorothy
(McManus); four daughters, Judith A. Radditz of Bay City, Mich., Irene Marie
of Watertown, Patricia Marie
Medis of Brockton and Christine T. of Malden; two sons, Francis James Jr. of
Madison, Wis., and John
Philip of Merrimack, N.H.; a sister, Ann "Nancy" P.
Cronin of Dover; and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St.
Camillus Church, Arlington.
Burial will be in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.
Arrangements by Short, Williamson and Diamond Funeral Service, Belmont.
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Beth Hurd
Johnston, RI USA
beth(a)the-hurds.com
http://www.the-hurds.com
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