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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Gil Carroll
Gil
Carroll
Apr 5, 1955 — Dec 22, 2018
Lumberton
Gil Carroll's Obituary
Mr. Lloyd Gilbert "Gil" Carroll, Jr., 63, passed away on Saturday, December 22, 2018, at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville.
He was born in Raleigh on April 5, 1955, to the late Lloyd Gilbert Carroll, Sr. and to Anne House Carroll.
Carroll was a standout athlete at Lumberton High School, where he was an all-conference performer in football for the Pirates, and also played basketball and ran track. He graduated in 1979 from what was then Pembroke State University and went on to a long and successful career as a head football coach at seven high schools in three states, at Chester, SC, Farmville, NC, Cape Fear, NC, Lumberton, NC, Charlotte Myers Park, NC, and Andrew Jackson and Paxon, both in Florida.
Carroll was predeceased by his father, Lloyd Gilbert Carroll, a longtime superintendent of the Lumberton school system and for whom a middle school is named.
Carroll is survived by his mother, Anne House Carroll of Bethel, NC; his brother, David Carroll of Bethel, NC; his wife, Helen Knight "Buffy" Carroll of Massachusetts, and their son, Christian; his daughter, Katherine Elizabeth Elich, her husband Leonardus Corneilus Elich III, and their children, Elizabeth McArthur Elich and Lee Nantz Elich; his son, Lloyd Gilbert "Tripp" Carroll III, his wife Sarah Bass Carroll, and their children, Daniel Herdy Carroll and Dalon Nantz Carroll.
There will be a graveside service on Friday, December 28, 2018, at 11:00 AM at Meadowbrook Cemetery, where he will be entered in a gravesite next to his father's.
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Funeral Services for Gil Carroll
Graveside Service
December
28
Friday
Meadowbrook Cemetery
Starts at 11:00 am
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