Dr. Joseph Carroll Krueger (Carroll), 86, died peacefully near his home in Port Ludlow, Washington, on June 20, 2016. 

Carroll was born on July 16, 1929, in Los Angeles. After high school, he served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific region between World War II and the Korean conflict, with distinction as a sharpshooter. After an honorable discharge, he attended and graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, then earning a medical degree from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Carroll returned to California, where he practiced orthopedic surgery for decades in Marin County, improving the lives and health of countless patients. His bedside manner was old-school, with a reputation for spending all the time needed with patients.

Carroll’s loving wife Terilyn, his children and others remember “Poppy” as a person who never stopped improving himself. He and “Lolli” embraced retirement – first as roving RVers, leaving shore to ply West Coast waterways on their Grand Banks trawler, then as Port Ludlow residents. Carroll was a wry and critical thinker, a family man with relentless Renaissance passions: world traveler, sailor, woodworker, boat builder, knitter, stained-glass artisan, and voracious reader. Late in life he dove deep into classical music, studying not only the repertoire, but the lives and compositional nuances of the great composers.

Carroll is also survived by his: daughters  Catharine Slover (Peter), Lisa Krueger-Chandler (Art), Lara Hodges, and Erin Macaulay (Pat); sons Matthew Krueger and Thomas Krueger; stepson Terry Hughes; eight grandchildren; brothers Richard Krueger (Lois),  Larry Krueger (Saundra), and  Raymond Krueger (Jan); sisters Gretchen Ross, Linda Brennan (Leo),  Karen Smith  (Errol), and Francine Brigharn . He was preceded in death by his parents Joseph and Mary Nolan Krueger, and his sister, Mary Delourde Brooks.

There will be a simultaneous candle lighting on July 16 at 3:33 pm PST, the time of Carroll's passing.