CARROLL B. KNOWLTON

CARROLL B. KNOWLTON BLUE HILL – Carroll B. Knowlton, “Skip,” 77, died Aug. 14, 2004, at home from injuries following an automobile accident. He was born Oct. 11, 1926, in Nashua, N.H., the son of Carroll B. Knowlton Sr. and Marion Davis Knowlton. He grew up in West Medford, Mass., and graduated from Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass. He served as a pharmacist’s mate in the U.S. Navy during World War II. His favorite assignment was on an air-sea rescue boat in Casco Bay. He graduated from Amherst College in 1950, where he met his wife, Elizabeth Rockwood (Mount Holyoke ’50). After working for several years at Knowlton Iron Works, his family’s iron and steel works business, they moved to Ithaca, N.Y., where Skip was a graduate student in entomology at Cornell University, earning an M.S. in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1961. His long teaching career was spent at Orange County Community College in Middletown, N.Y., where he taught biology. He served many years as department chairman and was also the faculty association president. His retirement from teaching allowed him to return to his beloved Deer Isle, where he had spent summers ever since he was an infant. He and Liz moved to Parker Ridge Retirement Community in Blue Hill in 1995. During his lifetime of community service, Skip served on the Goshen, N.Y., School Board, the Goshen Ecumenical Pantry Board, the Coast Guard Auxiliary, the St. James’ Church Vestry and as a lay reader, chalice bearer and lay eucharistic minister. After moving to Maine, he continued his church involvement at St. Francis by the Sea and ultimately was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church in 2001. He was particularly involved in work with nursing homes and the elderly, with jail residents, with hospice patients and with the needy. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Elizabeth; his children, Rodney and Laurie; and grandchildren, Elijah and Samantha. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24, at St. Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church, Blue Hill. Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be sent to the St. Francis Memorial Fund, St. Francis by the Sea, Blue Hill, ME 04614.