Carl Tucker
AGE: 92 • Pine Beach
Death came on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 to Carl Malcolm Tucker, son of a musical Cheltenham, PA family. From an early age, Carl's own music-making was on the flute. From there on, his life ran a gamut from aircraft mechanic to Army infantryman, to flutist in three major Symphony Orchestras, to Cathedral artisan, craftsman and choir tenor. In the midst of these professional moves, he and Evelyn Goodwin of Burholme, Philadelphia were married in 1947. In 1957, the year of Washington Cathedral's 50th anniversary, Tucker stopped by the Cathedral to watch, and offer help to an English woodworker installing intricately carved oak screens in War Memorial Chapel. Dean Francis Sayre, a woodworker himself, witnessed how readily this "visitor" participated in the process. He offered Carl the use of a small shop where he would soon meet an astonishing variety of challenges. There, surrounded by new friends - sculptors, carvers, and artists of all sorts - each project was more soul-satisfying. The docents soon dubbed him the Cathedral's "Renaissance Man" and to this day point out to visitors Carl's ironwork, inscriptions carved in oak doors and high overhead, the polychrome seals of all the Episcopal dioceses. Most striking of his accomplishments are the two immense ceiling designs, 16' by 40', he painted beneath the north and south balconies.
The Tuckers retired to Pine Beach in 1987, where they designed, and he built, a striking extension to the tiny Goodwin cottage.
Carl is predeceased by his parents and two brothers. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, his sisters-in-law, Muriel Tucker of Philadelphia and Winifred Lindsay of Toms River; seven nieces and nephews and their families, hundreds of enthusiastic flute students, and many good friends at Christ Episcopal Church, Toms River.
Family and friends will gather for visitation from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 in Christ Episcopal Church, 415 Washington St., Toms River. The service of thanksgiving for the life of Carl Malcolm Tucker will begin at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in the church's Memorial Garden. Memorial gifts to the Restoration Fund of Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC 20016-5098 would be greatly appreciated.
Published in Asbury Park Press on Feb. 20, 2013
AGE: 92 • Pine Beach
Death came on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 to Carl Malcolm Tucker, son of a musical Cheltenham, PA family. From an early age, Carl's own music-making was on the flute. From there on, his life ran a gamut from aircraft mechanic to Army infantryman, to flutist in three major Symphony Orchestras, to Cathedral artisan, craftsman and choir tenor. In the midst of these professional moves, he and Evelyn Goodwin of Burholme, Philadelphia were married in 1947. In 1957, the year of Washington Cathedral's 50th anniversary, Tucker stopped by the Cathedral to watch, and offer help to an English woodworker installing intricately carved oak screens in War Memorial Chapel. Dean Francis Sayre, a woodworker himself, witnessed how readily this "visitor" participated in the process. He offered Carl the use of a small shop where he would soon meet an astonishing variety of challenges. There, surrounded by new friends - sculptors, carvers, and artists of all sorts - each project was more soul-satisfying. The docents soon dubbed him the Cathedral's "Renaissance Man" and to this day point out to visitors Carl's ironwork, inscriptions carved in oak doors and high overhead, the polychrome seals of all the Episcopal dioceses. Most striking of his accomplishments are the two immense ceiling designs, 16' by 40', he painted beneath the north and south balconies.
The Tuckers retired to Pine Beach in 1987, where they designed, and he built, a striking extension to the tiny Goodwin cottage.
Carl is predeceased by his parents and two brothers. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, his sisters-in-law, Muriel Tucker of Philadelphia and Winifred Lindsay of Toms River; seven nieces and nephews and their families, hundreds of enthusiastic flute students, and many good friends at Christ Episcopal Church, Toms River.
Family and friends will gather for visitation from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 in Christ Episcopal Church, 415 Washington St., Toms River. The service of thanksgiving for the life of Carl Malcolm Tucker will begin at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in the church's Memorial Garden. Memorial gifts to the Restoration Fund of Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC 20016-5098 would be greatly appreciated.
Published in Asbury Park Press on Feb. 20, 2013
Carl Tucker
AGE: 92 • Pine Beach
Death came on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 to Carl Malcolm Tucker, son of a musical Cheltenham, PA family. From an early age, Carl's own music-making was on the flute. From there on, his life ran a gamut from aircraft mechanic to Army infantryman, to flutist in three major Symphony Orchestras, to Cathedral artisan, craftsman and choir tenor. In the midst of these professional moves, he and Evelyn Goodwin of Burholme, Philadelphia were married in 1947. In 1957, the year of Washington Cathedral's 50th anniversary, Tucker stopped by the Cathedral to watch, and offer help to an English woodworker installing intricately carved oak screens in War Memorial Chapel. Dean Francis Sayre, a woodworker himself, witnessed how readily this "visitor" participated in the process. He offered Carl the use of a small shop where he would soon meet an astonishing variety of challenges. There, surrounded by new friends - sculptors, carvers, and artists of all sorts - each project was more soul-satisfying. The docents soon dubbed him the Cathedral's "Renaissance Man" and to this day point out to visitors Carl's ironwork, inscriptions carved in oak doors and high overhead, the polychrome seals of all the Episcopal dioceses. Most striking of his accomplishments are the two immense ceiling designs, 16' by 40', he painted beneath the north and south balconies.
The Tuckers retired to Pine Beach in 1987, where they designed, and he built, a striking extension to the tiny Goodwin cottage.
Carl is predeceased by his parents and two brothers. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, his sisters-in-law, Muriel Tucker of Philadelphia and Winifred Lindsay of Toms River; seven nieces and nephews and their families, hundreds of enthusiastic flute students, and many good friends at Christ Episcopal Church, Toms River.
Family and friends will gather for visitation from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 in Christ Episcopal Church, 415 Washington St., Toms River. The service of thanksgiving for the life of Carl Malcolm Tucker will begin at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in the church's Memorial Garden. Memorial gifts to the Restoration Fund of Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC 20016-5098 would be greatly appreciated.
Published in Asbury Park Press on Feb. 20, 2013
AGE: 92 • Pine Beach
Death came on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 to Carl Malcolm Tucker, son of a musical Cheltenham, PA family. From an early age, Carl's own music-making was on the flute. From there on, his life ran a gamut from aircraft mechanic to Army infantryman, to flutist in three major Symphony Orchestras, to Cathedral artisan, craftsman and choir tenor. In the midst of these professional moves, he and Evelyn Goodwin of Burholme, Philadelphia were married in 1947. In 1957, the year of Washington Cathedral's 50th anniversary, Tucker stopped by the Cathedral to watch, and offer help to an English woodworker installing intricately carved oak screens in War Memorial Chapel. Dean Francis Sayre, a woodworker himself, witnessed how readily this "visitor" participated in the process. He offered Carl the use of a small shop where he would soon meet an astonishing variety of challenges. There, surrounded by new friends - sculptors, carvers, and artists of all sorts - each project was more soul-satisfying. The docents soon dubbed him the Cathedral's "Renaissance Man" and to this day point out to visitors Carl's ironwork, inscriptions carved in oak doors and high overhead, the polychrome seals of all the Episcopal dioceses. Most striking of his accomplishments are the two immense ceiling designs, 16' by 40', he painted beneath the north and south balconies.
The Tuckers retired to Pine Beach in 1987, where they designed, and he built, a striking extension to the tiny Goodwin cottage.
Carl is predeceased by his parents and two brothers. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, his sisters-in-law, Muriel Tucker of Philadelphia and Winifred Lindsay of Toms River; seven nieces and nephews and their families, hundreds of enthusiastic flute students, and many good friends at Christ Episcopal Church, Toms River.
Family and friends will gather for visitation from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 in Christ Episcopal Church, 415 Washington St., Toms River. The service of thanksgiving for the life of Carl Malcolm Tucker will begin at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in the church's Memorial Garden. Memorial gifts to the Restoration Fund of Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC 20016-5098 would be greatly appreciated.
Published in Asbury Park Press on Feb. 20, 2013
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