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Rosamond Mary Moore Carew, known to family and friends as “Mema,” died at home on September 18, 2017, surrounded by her family. She was 106.
Mrs. Carew was born in Kings County, Brooklyn. After high school, she attended Scutter School of Business in Manhattan, where she met the man who would become her husband, James F. Carew, an attorney in Manhattan. They raised their family in Rockville Centre and after retirement they settled in East Quogue. Mr. Carew died in 1981 and she remained in East Quogue for the next 25 years, staying active in many community organizations. She was a member of the Church of St. Rosalie, local senior citizens organizations and volunteered at Southampton Hospital for more than 18 years.
In 2005 she sold her home and moved to Water Mill to be closer to her family and moved again in 2011 to live with her granddaughter and great-grandchildren. One of the more recent celebrations for her long and happy life was on her 106 birthday, the Ides of March, when she was guest of honor at the bicentennial tribute and annual meeting of the Irish American Society of New York at the New York Yacht Club. She was greeted by Jerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein of Ireland, Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director and serenaded by General Martin Dempsey, and many other well-known Irish Americans, all wishing her a happy birthday.
She is survived by her children, Peter Carew of Sag Harbor, Rosamond Weir and husband Don of Southampton and Florida, Kathleen McLachlen and husband James of Southampton, and James Carew and wife Nevine of Idaho; seven grandchildren, Collette, Caroline and Donald Weir, Jennifer and James McLauchlen, Nicole and Christopher Carew; and four great-grandchildren, Hayden and Bradley Weir, and Lachlan and Ava Rosamond McLauchlen-Deane.
A private funeral Mass and burial will be held at St. Charles Church.
on Sep 18, 2017