Rosemary Spinelli Carroll, a 1969 graduate of Bluffton High School, died in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a long illness. She was the daughter of Bluffton native Mary E. McGinnis Spinelli and granddaughter of Dale Owens McGinnis and Delbert A. McGinnis. The Spinelli family lived in Bluffton for one year while Col. Spinelli served in Vietnam.

Mrs. Carroll was a nurse at Havasu Regional Medical Center in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., where she worked until just a few weeks before her death. She was trained at St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Towson, Md., In 1975, she was commissioned a second lieutenant in the USAF and reported to Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Rosemary was born in Berlin, Germany, during the Allied Occupation and lived in Baltimore, Md., the Panama Canal Zone, Arkadelphia, Ark., Fairfax, Va., San Antonio, Texas, Gulfport, Miss., Corpus Christi, Texas, Duluth, Minn., Melbourne, Fla., and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

In addition to her children, Alison and Daniel Carroll, Rosemary is survived by her father, Joseph D. Spinelli, Sr., of Carlisle, Pa.; two sisters, Mary Bolling and Elizabeth (Neil) Balmert; and four brothers: Nicholas (Susan), Joseph (Karen), Jr., Robert (Melisa), and Edward (Caroline).

Also surviving are numerous nieces and nephews and countless cousins to include the Heinemans of Port Clinton, the Parkers of Put-in-Bay, and David and Steven Schmenk of Bluffton and Pandora, respectively.

Preceding Rosemary in death are her mother Mary, stepmother, Jean, sister, Anita Stone, and brothers, John and James.