Monroe J. Carell Jr., 76, a Nashville businessman who helped Central Parking Corp. become one of the largest parking providers in North America, has died after a battle with cancer.
Carell served in the Navy before enrolling at Vanderbilt University, where he graduated from the School of Engineering in 1959, according to a news release from the school that said Carell died Friday.
He was the chief engineer with the Duck River Electrical Cooperative before going to work for his father at Central Parking in 1967, where he later served as chairman and chief executive.
Among his honors, Carell was made a Knight of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II.
Robert Foster, 78, a former Secret Service agent charged with protecting the children of President Kennedy, has died.
He died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at First Community Village, a retirement community in Columbus, Ohio. Foster’s son confirmed his death.
Foster joined the Secret Service in 1956 and guarded the children of President Eisenhower. He guarded the Kennedy children from 1961 until 1964. He comforted Caroline Kennedy at her father’s funeral in 1963 and held John Jr. on outings to the park.
After Jacqueline Kennedy and her children moved to New York in 1964, Foster took on other Secret Service assignments.
The Rev. Henry Chadwick, 87, a Church of England priest and renowned scholar of the early centuries of Christianity, has died.
Chadwick died Tuesday at a hospital in Oxford, his family said. The cause of death was not given.
Much of Chadwick’s research involved controversies in the early church, which he sought to explain with sympathy for the individuals involved. The same attitude was evident in his work in Anglican ecumenical dialogues with Roman Catholics and the Orthodox church.
The first of his many books was a translation of “Contra Celsum” by Origen of Alexandria, the third- century church father, published in 1953. His later works included studies of St. Ambrose, Priscillian of Avila, Boethius and St. Augustine, capped in 2002 with the publication of “The Church in Ancient Society.” He was knighted in 1989.
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