CARROLL, Mary Lou (Bach)
Mary Lou (Bach) Carroll passed away at Kingston General Hospital in her 94th year.
Mary Lou was born in Hodgeville, SK to homesteaders Margaret Michell of Grand Rapids, MI and Frank Bach of Medford, WI during the great depression. As her three older brothers went off to war, the family moved to Vancouver where Mary Lou was educated by the Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Pat’s.
Mary Lou took a job at Canadian Pacific Airlines where she met Bob Carroll. They married in 1954 and moved to Mayo, Yukon. After their first son Burke was born, they were transferred to Dawson Creek where Tim was born. They then moved to Toronto where her husband Bob managed the CP Air reservations office.
Daughters Margie and Laura were born, and Mary Lou ensured there was always lots of singing and good music in the home. She got her teaching certificate and began teaching for the Metropolitan Separate School Board. Teaching ESL became a passion. Combining her love of travel and compassion for her students of ESL, she visited the former teachers of many of her students while on vacation.
Mary Lou just loved to sing and to harmonize! She sang in many choirs and inspired in her children a love of music. In the late seventies, Mary Lou and husband Bob retired to build a home on the Adolphus Reach in Adolphustown. They quickly became a part of the community, opened a B&B and Mary Lou got involved by supply teaching, teaching in the prisons, organizing the Loyalist Parkway Marathon and singing in the local church choir and other local groups. She received a Good Citizenship Award for her work sending supplies to schools for orphans in Guatemala and Haiti and working in Haiti with the Sisters of St. Joseph.
In 2019, Mary Lou moved to the Royale Place Retirement Residence where she always said she was well looked after and really enjoyed the staff, her apartment and the other residents.
The family would especially like to thank the staff at KGH where Mary Lou and all the family were treated with care and compassion.
Mary Lou is predeceased by her husband Robert James Carroll, her brothers Jim, Bing, Floyd and Gerry Bach and her sister Sr. Peggy Bach.
She will be greatly missed by her brother Ed Bach, children Burke Carroll (Maureen Wright), Tim Carroll (Janet Day), Margie van der Horden (Paul van der Horden) and Laura Carroll (Steve Margison) as well as her seven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
A celebration of her life will take place in the spring.