JULIA E CARROLL

Julia Eve Dodd was born in Polk County, North Carolina on January 10, 1940 to Birdie Copeland Dodd and John Wallace Dodd. Julia graduated from Carver High School in Spindale, North Carolina. She wanted to seek better opportunities in life, so she left Polk County and moved to Providence, Rhode Island to join her brother the late Reverend Bravell Dodd. Julia worked for approximately 20 years at Coro Manufacturing, one of the largest jewelry factories on the east coast. She retired from Geospace Technologies Corp. in Houston Texas after 10 years as a Lead Supervisor over welding.

On a girlfriends’ outing to the Lake Champagne Naval Ship at     Quonset Point Naval Base, Julia met the love of her life, John Carroll, Jr. Julia and John were married on December 23, 1960 in Seekonk, Massachusetts and were together for 60 years. They were committed to their vows of “in sickness and in health till death do we part.”  Julia was the proud mother of two daughters, Judy Carroll Harper and Melissa Eve Carroll.

She was a long-time member of Olney Street Baptist Church where she served on the Usher Board and oversaw the Jr. Usher Board. Together John and Julia decided not to travel from place to place but to make a stable home close to family during his active service in the Navy. After being tired of snow blizzards and the cold; she told John let’s go, and Texas was the destination. Julia always loved to work with her hands in the garden receiving yard of the month regularly. Her friends and family knew her for her cooking and entertaining. Her children and grandchildren knew her for her love and support no matter what. The Lord knew her as a child of God, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, sister-in law, aunt, great aunt, and faithful friend. As Dwayne Dodd said, “She is and will always be a guiding light and salvation through every endeavor we encounter in life.”

Julia Eve Dodd Carroll departed this life on November 3, 2020. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers (Bravell and       Herman Dodd (Catherine)), two sisters (Virginia Hunt and Blondie Gash (Alvin)), sister-in-laws (Ollie Elmore and Lucinda Hodges) and brother in-law (Joe Carroll).

Left to cherish her loving memories are two daughters, Judy Carroll Harper and Melissa Eve Carroll; three grandsons, Ellis Carroll,  Nicholas Harper and Christopher Heyward; two great grand-daughters, Brielle Carroll and Ameerah Comier (they called her “Ge Ge”);  two sisters, Juanita Suber and Birdie Godlock; one brother, John H. Dodd (Priscilla); sister in-law, Barbara Dodd; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

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