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Author: KENNELLYMARKA
Surnames: Carroll,Clarke,
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Dr. Robert J. Carroll
Ross Township
Robert John Carroll, MD, of Ross Township, died Tuesday, March 15, 2011. He was born April
6, 1923, the youngest of six children of Edward J. and Estella B. Carroll. He was raised
in Bloomfield, above his father's pharmacy on Liberty Avenue. He is survived by his
wife of 63 years, Ruth Clarke Carroll; seven children, Patricia and David Burkardt, Jack
and Barbara Carroll, Rosemary Carroll and William Rizzo, Nancy Carroll, MD, Mary
"Kitty" Carroll, Thomas and Lucia Carroll and Ruth Falchetti. His daughter,
Jean, predeceased him. He is also survived by 19 grandchildren. He raised eight children,
"the pride of his life." A Central Catholic High School graduate (1940), he
graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. and from its medical school in
1947. Dr. Carroll served his internship at St. Francis Hospital and his residency at St.
John's Hospital. He began his medical practice in Ross Township in 1949 and retired in
1995. He was on the staff at St. John's, Suburban !
General, Divine Providence and North Hills Passavant Hospitals. He began to serve on the
board of directors of the Allegheny County Medical Society in 1961, served the same
society as president-elect in 1968 and as president in 1969. He chaired its judicial board
from 1975 to 1980. He was chairman of the Allegheny County Rubella Vaccination Program in
1970. Dr. Carroll also served on the Pennsylvania Medical Society board of trustees from
1982 to 1985. He was a co-founder of the Keystone Peer Review Organization in 1982, sat as
an American Medical Association delegate for 15 years (1974 to 1989) and was an active
member of the Pennsylvania Medical Association Political Action Committee from 1976 to
1981. He was a convinced Roman Catholic and a founding member of St. Sebastian Parish
(1950), serving on its Pastoral Council in recent years. He was president of the Catholic
Physicians Guild of Pittsburgh in 1954 and again in 2002 - 2003. In 2007, he served as a
delegate to the!
National Catholic Medical Association meeting in Portland, Ore. He wa
s involved in republican politics for many years, spurred to action by the debate in the
1950s and 1960s that showed the future of medicine would be determined by politicians
rather than physicians. He helped to found SEPP, Society for the Education of Physicians
and Patients in 1993 and served as its vice president for many years. A member of the Ross
Township and Allegheny County Republican Committees, he was elected an alternate delegate
to the National Republican Convention in 1996 and 2000. Visitation from 7 to 9 p.m.
Thursday and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at T.B. DEVLIN FUNERAL HOME, 806 Perry
Highway, North Hills. Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Sebastian
Church. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Sebastian Church, 311 Siebert
Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237; or to the Vincentian Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, 8200
McKnight Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237.
Pennsylvania.
St. Sebastian Church."
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