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Dr. and Mrs. Russell Carrell |
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Dr. and Mrs. Russell Carrell moved to Aruba in 1932. Dr. Carrell was a
surgeon who, at first, due to there only being a few medical staff in Aruba, did every thing, from surgery, to colds, to delivering babies.
The
photograph to the right
 show Dr. Carrell with Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
when she paid a visit to Lago and the some of the
doctors and staff from the Medical Department. First
from a floor in a building next to the new refinery, moving to a building near
the refinery, and then to the new hospital on the hill. Dr. Carrell helped plan
and build the first new hospital on the hill as will as the three story addition
which was added much later. Dr. Carrell spent his whole career in Aruba after
graduating from Rush Medical School and the University of Chicago Residency
Program at Cook Hospital Chicago.
 When the Carrell's first moved to Aruba they
lived in a bungalow near the hospital. on the lower road. Then they moved to
Bungalow 271,
(click on Bungalow 271 to go to that page) right next to the path and stairs going down to the tennis courts
and New Esso Club. The Carrell’s lived in Bungalow 271, (that is Bungalow 271 in
the photograph to the right) until 1960 when Dr.
Carrell retired and moved to Florida. Dr. Carrell became medical director for
Standard Oil during WW-II and continued in that position until his retirement. |
The Carrell’s have four daughters: Nancy and Ruth Carrell (now Nancy Bridges and Ruth Newman), the eldest and are twins. (One of the first sets of twins to be born in the colony) The photograph below, to the right is the Carrell family. Russeen Carrell (Lantz) who was born in 1945.Margie Carrell (Pate) born in 1949 in the Lago Hospital Submitted by: Margie Carrell Pate |