Carol Webster McCormack Obituary - Cape Cod Times

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Carol Webster McCormack, precocious of Harwich and Brewster, departed peacefully connected November 18, 2022 successful the compassionate attraction of The Terraces SNF, Orleans MA. She was 89 years of age. Predeceased by her parents astatine property 9 (9) Carol, her member and sister were adopted arsenic their ain by an aunt and uncle, Beatrice and William Webster of Ridgewood NJ and Harwich MA. They passed distant galore years later, with Carol serving arsenic their caregiver. Her sister Mary Lenore Webster died successful 1990.

Carol and her siblings grew up successful Ridgewood. She was blessed and palmy successful precocious schoolhouse and spent summers connected the Cape, moving hard arsenic were galore of her peers astatine the Thompson Brothers Clam Bar connected Wychmere Harbor successful Harwich Port. Carol was graduated astatine the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill successful 1955, with a grade successful economics and designation arsenic a person and superior pupil successful respective categories: astir notably arsenic president of the Valkyries grant nine and arsenic helium outstanding pistillate of her inferior class. At Carolina she pledged Pi Beta Phi and was a section officer.

She entered the concern satellite successful New York City and progressed done assorted fields becoming focused connected absorption of aesculapian probe projects astatine hospitals successful New York and Boston. For the second fractional of her vocation she served arsenic enforcement adjunct to the world dean of medicine astatine Weill Cornell Medical School, from which she was retired done assorted stages successful the precocious 1900s. In 1976 she met and joined Henry A. (“Hank”) McCormack of Scarsdale and New York City, NY. She joined him informally successful his enactment arsenic Mid-Atlantic Development Director for the University of Notre Dame and unneurotic they became a highly palmy team, known and wide respected by colleagues and alumni successful the US and United Kingdom. They retired to Harwich successful 2000 wherever they made caller and adjacent friends done the Rising Tide Investment Club and different activities. Hank passed distant successful 2007.

Carol is survived by her brother, Captain Edward W. Webster, USN, (Ret) (spouse Paula Massie Webster), nephew Edward C. Webster, PhD (Heidi Goar), niece Jessica Marley Webster, Sr. US Foreign Service (Ret); and children of Hank McCormack: Kathe E. Liljestrand, Kevin B. McCormack, Christopher A. McCormack, and Sheila B. Schreyer.

A Mass of Christian Burial volition beryllium celebrated for Carol astatine Our Lady of the Cape Parish, Brewster MA, astatine 11:00 AM, December 6, 2022, with visitation from 9:00 to 10:30 AM astatine the Nickerson Funeral Home, 77 Eldredge Park Way, Orleans MA. The Mass volition beryllium streamed for distant viewing. She volition beryllium buried successful the Eldridge household crippled successful Evergreen Cemetery, East Harwich adjacent to her beloved hubby Hank. An informal reception volition beryllium held afterward astatine a adjacent edifice to beryllium announced.

In lieu of flowers contributions whitethorn beryllium made successful Carol’s representation to the Henry A. and Carol W. McCormack Scholarship Fund c/o the University of Notre Dame Department of Development, 1100 Grace Hall, Notre Dame IN 46556. Or to the Haiti Fund astatine Our Lady of the Cape Parish, P.O. Box 1799, Brewster MA.

Special acknowledgment are owed for the loving attraction Carol has received implicit the past 5 years astatine The Terraces Skilled Nursing Facility, Orleans MA, and much precocious from Jessica from Beacon Hospice, Hyannis MA.

Posted online connected November 19, 2022

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