Stephen L. Carbone Jr. ’40

Stephen L. Carbone Jr. ’40 died on July 7, 2010, at his home in Norwood, Massachusetts.

He was born in Boothbay Harbor on March 15, 1919, and graduated from Boothbay Harbor High School. He attended Bowdoin from 1936 to 1938, and received his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from Harvard University School of Dental Medicine in 1942. He served to lieutenant commander in the Navy in the Pacific theater during World War II, then maintained a private dental practice in Norwood for 48 years. He was a daily communicant of St. Catherine of Siena Church in Norwood, and a member of the Norwood Kiwanis and Knights of Columbus and its bowling league. He was honored with the Paul Harris Rotary Foundation Award by Rotary International in 2006. He enjoyed gardening and cooking. He is survived by two sons, Stephen L. Carbone III and Joseph Carbone; five daughters, Elizabeth Carbone, Marybeth Curran, Ann M. Cirillo, Ursula Meade, and Susan Beattie; nine grandchildren; and two sisters, Josephine Beckwith and Ernestine Fossa. He was predeceased in 1992 by his wife, Ursula Gately Carbone; three brothers, Frank, Fred, and Romolo Carbone; and a sister, Florence Giles.