Laurence Patrick Carroll

Laurence Patrick Carroll was born in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood on August 10, 1936, of loving parents: J.Talbott and Zelda Carroll. He leaves behind his adored wife of 23 years, Diane (dee) McQuesten, his beloved stepson, Morgan Dowe Davidson, of Casper, Wyoming and his brother, John Carroll and his family of Seattle. Pat took his Vow of Poverty with the Jesuit Oregon Provence on his 18th Birthday, August 10, 1954, shortly after Graduating from Seattle Prep High School. He worked for Providence Health & Services for over 20 years, most recently as their Annual Historian. Prior to becoming their Historian, he worked in the Pike Place Market out of their Providence Vincent House on First Avenue. Pat treasured his 44 years in the Society of Jesus, serving in schools (Jesuit High in Beaverton, Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma and Seattle University, where he taught Philosophy and in Parishes: St. Joseph in Seattle, St. Leo in Tacoma and St. Aloysius in Spokane and at Loyola Retreat House in Portland.) Pat spent 1977-78 leading retreats and workshops in Lesotho, Southern Africa, and, for 30 years offered conferences and retreats to both Religious and Lay Persons throughout the U.S. and Canada. Pat graduated and/or earned Masters Degrees from St. Joseph School, Seattle Prep, Santa Clara University and Gonzaga. He was the only boy admitted experientially to Holy Names Academy in Kindergarten. He only lasted 4 days when he was expelled for "Poor Deportment". Holy Names never admitted another boy in their long storied history. Even though Pat had to "medically" separate from the Jesuits because of growing Congenital Heart Disease, he lived his Jesuit values throughout his life. He never paid more than $4 for a pair of shoes. Consequently, he never had a pair that fit him. They were always too large or too small! Pat was particularly proud of his role in establishing the first co-educational Jesuit High School in the U.S. at Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma; his work, in the beginning the "Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Life", he and Sister Kathrine Dyckman resurrected from St. Ignatius many centuries prior. It was a program for and by lay people that, beginning in Seattle/Tacoma, spread through the Northwest and beyond touching thousands of lives over the past 30 years; and his 10 years at St. Leo, an inner-city parish noted both for serving the poor and providing a superb liturgical and preaching ministry. Pat authored or co-authored books (at least one book in each of the past 7 decades) and many articles on spirituality, poetry and contemporary questions. In 1998, after several massive cardiac arrests, Pat could no longer keep up the Jesuit work pace, believing his life was over. When he met and married Dee McQuesten, he discovered fresh and perhaps better reasons to live. His final years were rich with love received from her and by her. After almost half a century of a most public life, Pat found his deepest meaning in loving this one precious friend. For the past 23 years, Pat has enjoyed and appreciated being included in Dee's Davidson and McQuesten family events and activities; most of all, he loved the sleepovers and bedtime stories with grand-nephews, Tanner and Chase Davidson.

A Funeral Mass will be held for Pat on Saturday, December 31st (New Year's Eve) at 11:00am at

St. Joseph Catholic Parish

the Parish where he was Baptized, Confirmed and gave his first Homily when he was Ordained.

732 18th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112