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In 1995 she was a fact-finding observer in Haiti, which remained a highlight for her.Ĭarol loved music, art, nature, and social activism, and filled her free time with all of these. She remained active following her retirement, working as secretary for the Community Church of Boston, tutoring adult ESL students, and volunteering as an “AIDS Buddy” for an AIDS service organization. She was promoted to Assistant Supervisor for the Massachusetts Office of Equal Employment Practices, supporting and increasing representation of women, minorities, and the disadvantaged in State employment.

Her affirmative action career continued at the State level, working for the Massachusetts Bureau of Public Information and Recruitment as an Employment Specialist responsible for minority employment, counseling, and training. She then went on to become Affirmative Action Officer for the neighboring town of Arlington. For her work she was awarded the Martin Luther King citation by the Medford Branch of the NAACP, and received special commendation by Medford City Council. Her commitment to racial justice led her to become, at age 50, the first, full-time Affirmative Action Officer for the City of Medford, MA. In mid-life she returned to the workforce, first as an administrative assistant at the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, and later for Tufts University’s Experimental College program. To make her voice heard she participated in numerous demonstrations and marches, not only in her own town, but in Washington D.C., New York, and Seabrook, NH. Throughout her life she openly tackled important issues of the day, including civil rights and race relations, opposition to the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, women’s rights, access to birth control, abortion rights, nuclear arms control, Native American affairs, workers’ rights, elder issues, LGBTQ rights, and marriage equality. They raised two sons, Richard and John.Įven in the role of housewife, mother, and minister’s wife, Carol held a deep commitment to social justice and activism. Over the years he served Unitarian Universalist congregations in Orange and Worcester, MA Jamestown, NY and finally Medford, MA. Gene shared her passion for social justice issues, and they wed in 1956. While working as assistant to the Regional Director of the Foreign Policy Association in Cleveland, she met Rev. During college she studied abroad at the Folk School in Denmark, and later took time to hitchhike through Europe before returning home. Adams died on Monday, Decemin Damariscotta, Maine. She was 89 years old, having been born Martha Caroline Brown on January 8, 1928, in Lakewood, OH, to Edna (Toudy) and Clarence Brown.Ĭarol graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1950 with a BA in philosophy. Then click on the name to open the record for that person.Ĭarol Adams, the widow of the Rev. Click on the first letter of the last name below to open the index for everyone with a last name starting with that letter. If we’ve missed someone or you find an error in our reporting, please let us know at obituaries are organized alphabetically by last name. Sometimes we don’t hear about a death, particularly when it is of a widowed partner. The Board decided to post only the deaths of our own members (ministers or partners), except that we will report via a brief announcement on the death of a minister who was 65 or older, whether or not a member, and invite the surviving partner to join UURMaPA. The more complete obituary may take several months to prepare. Our volunteer obituary writers attempt to contact family members and friends as they research and prepare a thoughtful remembrance. We post the notice of a death as soon as we are aware of it, along with brief biographical information. Over the years since the inception of UURMaPA, we’ve moved from a simple one- or two-line death notice to a brief paragraph and more recently to more extensive obituaries. UURMaPA maintains an archive of their obituaries. Our spring 2021 conference included this slide presentation of the members who were memorialized. Our memories of those who have gone before us inform our lives in many ways.Įach time we gather for a conference, we include a memorial service honoring members who have died since the last time we met. The living tradition we celebrate recognizes the passages of life and death. We remember the retired ministers and their partners who have died.

Keene sentinel obituaries christal grimm