Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Carolyn Morris KEMPTON
Carolyn K. Melcher of Hilton Head, SC and South Hero, VT died September 28, 2014 at her home in Hilton Head surrounded by her loving family. She had just passed her 89th birthday.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Carol was the daughter of Robert Morris Kempton and Dorothy Tremaine Kempton. She was married to the late Samuel Francis Melcher, Jr. for 64 years until his death in April of this year. She was the mother of the late Bruce Dickinson Melcher. She attended Bucknell University in Lewis, PA, and was a graduate of The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, and received a Masters in Library Science from the Pratt Institute.
During World War II she worked assembling the Corsair Marine Corps Fighter in a factory in Stratford Connecticut. A true Rosie the Riveter, she held the speed record for making tail assemblies.
Carol raised her family in Upper Montclair, NJ and Upper Saddle River, NJ and was a librarian for various educational institutions and the towns of Nyack, NY and Ridgewood NJ.
She was an accomplished equestrian, and turned her love of horses and riding into a lasting legacy by starting Therapeutic Riding Programs in three states; STEED, in Northern New Jersey; CHAMP in South Hero, Vermont, and Heroes on Horseback in the Low Country of South Carolina. These programs have brought countless hours of pleasure and therapy to children with physical, mental or emotional disabilities.
She was also an avid gardener, and enjoyed spending hours with her hands in the dirt, coaxing flowers from her garden in Vermont. She arranged flowers for the churches she attended; St. Luke's Church in Hilton Head, and the Congregational Church of South Hero.
She was a Daughter of the King at St. Luke's, and a PEO with Chapter X in Hilton Head and Chapter C in Burlington, VT.
A funeral service will be held at St. Luke's Church, 50 Pope Ave, Hilton Head, at 2pm on Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Interment and a memorial will be in May so she can rest with her son, Bruce and husband Samuel in South Hero, Vermont.
Donations in Carol's memory may be made to Heroes on Horseback, P.O. Box 3678 Bluffton, SC 29910 or to St. Luke's Church, 50 Pope Ave, Hilton Head SC 29928.
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