Black - Carroll
CARROLL BLACK
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 27 November 1972 p 1
Carroll Black, 66, 405 Lincoln St., retired director of programs and home town publicity at Wabash College, died at 9:30 p.m. Sunday in Winona Hospital at Indianapolis. Mr. Black joined the Wabash staff as an admissions counselor in 1957, was named assistant admissions director in 1961, and became director of programs in July, 1970. He was honored by the college in 1970 with a Class Agent's Award for his outstanding job on behalf of the Wabash Alumni Fund. He was a member of Kiwanis Club; Montgomery Lodge 50, F&AM; Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Blue Key honorary fraternity; served as president of the Montgomery County Heart Association and was on the state board of directors for the Heart Association. He was an elder of the Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church. Mr. Black was a graduate of Lincoln High School, Lincoln, Neb., and of Wabash College in 1928. He did post graduate work at the University of Nebraska and the University of Washington. He was born Oct. 20, 1906, in Cheyenne, Wyo., to Ringo and Julie Osborn Black. He was married to Virginia Gillfillan who survives. Other survivors include a son, Carroll Regan of Pleasant Hill, San Francisco, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Jincy Boerner of Bethesda, Md., and Mrs. Shelia Ann Harms of Rapid City, S. D.; two brothers, Malcolm R. and Oz, both of Denver, Colo.; two sisters, Mrs. Ernestine Wolf of Lakewood, Calif.; and Mrs. Marjorie Tyner of Lincoln, Neb., and six grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Hunt & Son Funeral Home. - kbz