Thomas Roger Carr

Thomas Roger Carr

August 17, 1955-December 8, 2023

     Due to congestive heart disease, Tom left us December 8, 2023.  He will be greatly missed by his friend and caregiver, Jackie Johnson, his siblings Carol Lorang of Great Falls, Jane (Jim) Forthun of Seeley Lake, Roxcee (John) Kountz of Whitehall, Bill (Debbie) Carr of Minnesota, Jim (Glenda) Carr of Whitefish, Cathy (Tim) Garrad of Billings, Karen (Zane) Huff of Billings and John Carr of Billings.  Also his children Jessie Carr and Jacob Carr of South Carolina and many nieces and nephews and more friends than he probably even realized.

      Tom was born in Lewistown, Montana August 17, 1955, while the family was living in Winnett, Montana.  He was born the same day as our Grandma Carr passed.  She had been long awaiting her first grandson.  Tom was 5 when the family moved to Whitehall to take over the A&W.  Tom excelled in football, basketball and especially track where he loved high jumping and broke a record both in Whitehall and then again after moving to Florence in his Junior year.  Tom served in the Air Force right after high school.  He got an accounting degree from the U of M after he did many other jobs. Tom was the office manager for Industrial Services of the Rockies Inc. until it was shut down in 2013 . He continued as office manager for P&S Fabricators Inc until it shut down in spring of 2021.  Tom was never afraid of work. Tom was known to ride his Harley or BMW motorcycle everywhere he went as an adult and would drive through Whitehall and sit on a park bench to see who would notice him.  Usually one of the Kountz kids would see their Uncle Tom and stop and talk to him.  He was very special to his nieces and nephew in Whitehall.  He also rode his motorcycle to Georgia to see daughter Jessie and then on the way home stopped at sister Jane’s in OK.  I’m sure he had a lot of miles on all the bikes he owned.   

   Those who preceded him in death were his parents Thomas Norman and Ailene Carr,  grandparents Thomas and Mabel Carr and Willard and Aila Jarvie, his brother-in-law Tom Lorang and his great nephew, Mathew Carr.    As far as we know no services have been planned by his children.