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Carrie Backus Obituary
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Jamey Smith
March 25, 2024
I was a classmate of Carrie at U of L. We were in woodwind quintet together. She transferred after first year. 30 plus years later I thought about her and a Google search led me to this obituary. This is very sad. Carrie was a kind, thoughtful teenager when I knew her. She was a natural musician full of potential. I´m not surprised that she had a successful career as a music educator. Although we´ve been separated by decades and thousands of miles, the impression she left on me is indelible. There´s something about the friendships of our youth that last forever. I wish peace for her loved ones. From Washington, DC - Jamey Smith
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Jonathan DeLaigle
March 6, 2020
Carrie Nell DeLaigle Backus, 45, of Clayton, North Carolina, passed away on February 12, 2020 in Clayton, North Carolina.
Carrie Nell was born in Warner Robins, Georgia on April 1, 1974 to Johnny Dean and Christina Taulbee DeLaigle. Carrie Nell attended public schools in Warner Robins and was a 1992 graduate of Warner Robins High School. Upon graduation, she attended the University of Louisville and later, the University of South Carolina, where she obtained her Bachelor of Music Degree, specializing in Music Education.
Carrie Nell worked in various schools in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas before joining the United States Marine Corps, serving for eleven years and obtaining the rank of Staff Sergeant. In the Marines, Carrie Nell played French Horn for the Marine Bands at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and Marine Corps Base Hawaii. At her last duty station with the Marine Corps, Carrie Nell served as a music instructor at the United States Armed Forces School of Music located at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
After leaving active duty, Carrie Nell returned to work as an educator with schools in Virginia Beach, Virginia and later, Clayton, North Carolina where she was very active in her church, supporting the youth, music, and athletic programs. Carrie Nell was also a very devoted and loving mother to her two children: William Beau Eugene Backus IV and Ainsley Elizabeth Backus.
Carrie Nell is survived by her children, Beau and Ainsley; her father Johnny Dean DeLaigle; grandmother, Sallie DeLaigle Syms; brothers and sisters Stephen and Tara DeLaigle, and Jonathan and Tori DeLaigle; nephews Alexander Christian and Nicholas Jack DeLaigle; aunts and uncles, Vinson and Peggy DeLaigle, and Janie Taulbee; and cousins, Kerry Lynn Taulbee, Susan Taulbee Cintra, Leah DeLaigle Weldon, Hope DeLaigle Collier, and Daniel Vinson DeLaigle.
Carrie Nell is preceded in death by her mother Christina Taulbee DeLaigle; grandparents Richard Henry and Elizabeth Ainsworth Armstrong, Stephen Combs and Bess May Taulbee, Herman Burch DeLaigle, and step-grandfather Franklin Syms; and her uncle James Stephen Taulbee.
Military honors will be held for Carrie Nell Backus at the Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia on Friday, March 13, 2020 at 11:00am.
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