VEDA CARROLL

LAMAR- The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, at Daniel Funeral Home for Veda Merle Carroll, 93, who died peacefully Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, at Cox Barton County Hospital. Interment will follow at Lake Cemetery.

Contributions are suggested and made payable to Barton County Senior Center, or to the donor’s choice, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include a son, Tom Carroll and wife Marian, Pittsburg, Kan.; a daughter, Candi Carroll, Lamar; two grandsons, Adam Carroll and wife Sheena, Springfield and Tyler Carroll, also of Springfield and two great-grandsons, Eatons and Tanner Carroll.

She was preceded in death by her husband.

Mrs. Carroll was born Dec. 22, 1925, in Lamar, the only child of Albert and Elva Freuler. Her family moved to Neosho early in her life when her father became employed by Pet Milk Company. As a teen she worked in the dental office at Camp Crowder during World War II. She was a 1943 Neosho High School graduate. She then attended and graduated from Gulf Park College of Women, Gulfport, Miss., where she enjoyed performing the ballet.

In 1947, she graduated from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. After college graduation she taught at Neosho Public Schools, where she directed the May Fete. While attending the University of Arkansas, she met Thomas W. Carroll and they were married on June 25, 1949. When he entered medical school in Little Rock, Ark., she worked at Union Life Insurance Company.

Dr. Carroll and Vee moved to Lamar in the Spring of 1955 for him to begin family practice medicine at Lamar Clinic. She was a homemaker and enjoyed antiques, tole painting and decorating for the four seasons and holidays. In her later years, she enjoyed being at home with family and friends.