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Carroll Joseph Casey RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA -- Carroll Joseph Casey, 84, of 4601 Yates Mill Pond Road, formerly of Mexico, Maine, died Saturday at home. For the past 10 years, he had made his home with daughte,r Debra McCarty, her husband, Dennis and sons Craig and Kevin. Surviving are daughters, Gail Downs of Bangor, Maine, Dorrie Casey and her husband, Archie Purcell of Chapel Hill, NC, Anne Ludington and her husband, Spencer of Fulton, NY, Debra McCarty and her husband, Dennis of Raleigh; a son, Carroll Neil "Carlie" Casey and his wife, Anne Larson Casey of Bellingham, Washington; a sister, Anne Gallant of Rumford, ME; 10 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Mr. Casey served in the navy during World War II and was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He worked for 35 years as a tinknocker at the Oxford Paper Company, in Rumford, Maine. A lifelong walker who hiked all but 70 miles of the Appalachian Trail, Mr. Casey walked up to 10 miles a day, even into his eighties. As a child, he had already earned the knickname "Shanks." A devout Catholic, Mr. Casey attended Mass wherever he happened to be visiting, across the United States and Canada. He was preceded in death by his wife, Claudia E. Casey, and a son, Michael Lloyd Casey. Ê Ê |