Louise (Bennett) Carroll

Louise (Bennett) Carroll, 99, of Whitney went home to be with our Heavenly Father on Thursday, December 17, 2020.  Graveside services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday, December 28, 2020, at Oak Grove Cemetery in Whitney.  Louise will lie in state from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 27, at Marshall & Marshall Funeral Directors in Whitney.  Facial masks and social distancing are required.

Louise was born October 8, 1921, in the Crow Community near Whitney to John and Willie (Duncan) Bennett.  She was a 1940 graduate of Whitney High School.

She worked for Fort Worth Linen Service, Consolidated Aircraft working on B-24 Bombers, and later at Wards Washateria.

On July 9, 1968, Louise married Marvin Carroll, and he preceded her in death on December 22, 1972.  They were in charge of the kitchen at the Lake Whitney Country Club the first year it opened.  The couple also owned a café in Whitney until it was destroyed by a tornado.

She was a past secretary for the Hill County Crippled Children, secretary and life member of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8371, secretary and Noble Grand of the Whitney Rebekah Lodge 300, and treasurer of the Oak Grove Cemetery.  She was also active in the Towash Baptist Church, where she was the clerk secretary and sang in the choir for many years.  Louise was a regular blood donor and gave four gallons of blood throughout the years.  She was the historian and Vice Queen Mother for the Red Hat Dainty Dolls at Park Plaza Nursing Home where she was active in all the activities and enjoyed living there.  Louise later moved to Town Hall Nursing Home and lived there until she passed away.

Louise loved watching her flowers bloom, her garden grow, and sitting under the Mulberry tree eating Mulberries.  She also liked to write about the old days and she wrote information of when she grew up in the Depression.  She enjoyed watching the Dallas Mavericks and the Texas Rangers.

Also preceding her in death were her parents and son, Johnnie Ray Wood.

Her greatest pleasure was taking care of three little boys and watching them grow up (Derek McPherson, Tyler McPherson, and Stephen Lynch).  These boys and Jennifer Lynch, Stephanie Lynch, and Heather McPherson were the grandchildren she never had.  She was known to all of us as Grandma Louise.

Survivors include her really good friends, David and Donna McPherson of Whitney and their children, Derek McPherson of Clifton, Tyler McPherson of Whitney, and Heather McPherson of Rogers, Arkansas; Steve and Debbie Lynch of Whitney and their children, Jennifer Grote and husband, David, of Hillsboro and daughters, Abigail and Hannah, Stephanie Conner and husband, Pat, of Whitney and their children, Adalynn and Hunter, Stephen Lynch and wife, Miranda, of Whitney and their children, Kaylea and Stephen, III; cousins, Darlene Halbert and husband, Jodie, of Whitney and Jack Basham and wife, Pat, of Whitney.

Memorials may be made to the Towash Baptist Church, P. O. Box 1141, Whitney, TX 76692 or Whitney Area Museum, 303 North Brazos Street, Whitney, TX 76692.