Obituary of Carol Bacik

BACIK BUXTON, NC CAROL DEAN BACIK, loving, wife, mother and grandmother, passed on to the peace of her Lord at 75 years of age, Friday, September 17, 2004 in Chesapeake General Hospital with her loving husband and family by her side. She has been a very active member of Our Lady of the Sea Catholic Parish and Hatteras Island Community in Buxton, N.C. for the past 15 years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, November 24, 1928, as the only child of Samuel Randolph and Gertrude Nash Dean, her father was a member of Pioneers of Broadcasting and treasurer of CBS at its inception, until retiring. She was a summer camp waterfront counselor in Maryland and volunteer leader in a downtown New York urban center. She graduated from Penn Hall Prep School, Chambersburg, Pa, Hood College (past member Presidenté''s Round Table) in Frederick, Md, with a BS and Shippensburg State University, Pa with a Master’s Degree in Education. While a resident of Chambersburg, Pa, her love of teaching showed in her work as an elementary teacher at Chambersburg area schools and in her development of the first CCD Religious Education Program at Corpus Christi Parish with Father Fontanella. An active member of the American Association of University Women she served as the local chapter president, on the Pa. State Board, and as their State and National Lobbysist. After moving to Fredericksburg, Va. in 1973 she helped start the Saint Vincent De Paul Charity Conference there as well as being a contributing member of the Virginia Museum in Richmond, Va and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In Fredericksburg she put aside her teaching career to join her husband in building their privately owned business, Arby Construction Enterprises. She was a member of the Va. and Md. Roofing Contractors Association. This Mfg. Rep for construction materials gave them many opportunities for international travel to every continent except Australia. Highlights were their trips to the Holy Land and Rome, ancestral homes in Ireland and the Czech Republic, several days alone with a guide on the Serengeti Plain in Africa, Barbados and Singapore. She tied in her love of educating children by taking slide shows of her trips to many schools and organization. In 1987 she and her husband retired to Frisco on the Outer Banks of NC. There she kept very active in her interests by joining various associations including board member, National American Glass Club, Glass Associates, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va , various garden clubs, Cape Hatteras Bird Club, Volunteer for National Park Service, Hatteras Light House and Cape Hatteras Anglers Club. She led many visitors to the Outer Banks on bird walks and lectures doing much to promote the ecological needs of this national sanctuary for wildlife. She was one of few who could walk among birds without scattering them. Hummingbirds were known to land on her shoulder and her interests in hummingbirds led to a banding program on the Outer Banks. She was a past member and vice-president of the Board of Governors for the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island, N.C. Central to her faith was the expression of it to the youngest members. She was a certified Lay Minister of the Catholic Church, member of the Altar Society, Woman’s Guild and served as Religious Education Teacher for her local parish. She suffered many children to come unto her and they were the better for it. She was preceded to the peace of our Lord by her son Brian Bacik and is survived by her husband, Richard Bacik of Buxton, N.C. her children, Cheryl Bacik of Washington, DC; Diana Hamsher of Jacksonville Beach, Fl and Andrew Bacik and his wife Janet of Charlotte, NC, her grandchildren by Cheryl, Amanda Bacik, and by Andrew and Janet, Eileen, Meghan, Brian and Lauren Bacik; cousins, James, Gordon and Ted Stewart and surviving members of the Dean family in Ga. A funeral mass will be Tuesday Sept 21st, 2:00 p.m. at Our Lady of the Sea and a graveside service will be in Chambersburg, Pa, Thursday Sept 23rd. Arrangements are being handled by Twiford Funeral Home, Manteo, N.C. phone 252-473-2449. Donations to Our Lady of the Sea Catholic Parish, Church Building Fund, Highway 12, Buxton, N.C. 27920 in her memory are appreciated. Visit www.twifordfh.com to sign the online register