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 Elma Carreer
October 27, 2003
Elma Carreer, 93, of Devonshire Estates died Monday at Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation in Lee after a short illness.
Born in Greensboro, Vt., on Dec. 25, 1909, daughter of Alberton and Florence Peele DeBrune, she attended local schools and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1928. She obtained a master's degree in education from the University of Hartford (Conn.) in 1957 and did post-graduate work at Columbia University.
She moved to Greenwich, Conn., in 1961 and to Sarasota, Fla., after retiring. She moved to Lenox in 1999.
During World War II, she served with the American Red Cross in Europe from 1943 to 1947, setting up and then managing clubs for American soldiers in Northampton, England; LeMans, France, and Dachau, Germany. She often wrote home for the soldiers she met; sometimes it was the last bit of news their families received. Her papers include many letters from grateful families thanking her for her kindness. In 1999, the American Red Cross interviewed her about her experiences for its historical archives, and the Kentucky chapter held a banquet in her honor.
Mrs. Carreer was a teacher in the Greenwich, Conn., public schools from 1961 until retiring in 1974. She first began teaching in 1929 in Canaan, Conn., and, after the war, taught in Canaan, Middlefield and other towns in Connecticut, specializing in Latin and French.
While in Sarasota, she was a member of Unity Church of Sarasota, where she was active in several discussion groups and explored her interest in the history of the universe and the role of human consciousness. She also was in the city's first graduating class of court-trained volunteer mediators.
A golfer for 65 years, she played until she was 86. She also enjoyed riding horses and traveling. She had visited Eastern Europe, Canada, Mexico, Russia and the Mediterranean countries. She kept in touch with her former students in Canaan and attended class reunions there, including one last year.
Her former husband, Irving Gordon Carreer, died in 1971.
She leaves a daughter Susan Carreer Witt of Egremont; a son, James DeBrune Carreer of Shelbyville, Ky.; a sister, Evelyn Springstead of Greensboro, and three grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A service of remembrance for Elma Carreer, who died Oct. 27, 2003, will be held tomorrow, Oct. 30, at 2 at Devonshire Estates. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be sent to the E.F. Schumacher Society, 140 Jug End Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230, or through BIRCHES-ROY FUNERAL HOME, 33 South St., Great Barrington.
Survivors include her daughter-in-law, Catherine Carreer; her grandchildren, William James, Chelsea and Joshua, all of Shelbyville, Ky.; her niece, Janet Lyles Long of Greensboro, and her nephew, James Lyles, and his wife, who live in Maryland. Her younger sister, Helen Lyles, died last year at her home in Greensboro.
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