Roger Allen “R.A.” Carr, 57, of Alderson, WV, passed away Saturday, May 27, 2017, at the Peyton Hospice House in Fairlea, WV, following a 15-month battle with cancer.
Born March 22, 1960, in Ronceverte, WV, he was the son of Roger Allen Carr Sr. of Fort Spring, WV, and Carolyn Knapp Thompson of Lewisburg, WV.
Mr. Carr was a 1978 graduate of Greenbrier West High School in Charmco, WV. He started out as a welder and partsman and then went to work as an inspector at the West Virginia Department of Transportation. Following his employment at the West Virginia Department of Transportation, he went to work at the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Mr. Carr was a correctional officer, having worked in Atlanta, GA, and New York before coming back home to Alderson, where he retired from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Alderson after many years of service.
While working as a correctional officer at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Mr. Carr was taken hostage during what was called the Atlanta Prison Riots. During the riots, Cuban inmates took more than a hundred hostages and burned down a substantial portion of the facility, which resulted in 23 injuries and one death. Mr. Carr was held hostage for 11 days, which was an extremely scary time for his family and friends.
Survivors include his daughter, Erica Caleb Carr McMillion of Wolf Creek, WV; a son, Seth Allen Carr of Alderson; a grandson, Caleb Ray McMillion of Wolf Creek; his father, Roger Allen Carr Sr. of Fort Spring; his mother, Carolyn Knapp Thompson of Lewisburg, his stepfather, Ed Thompson of Wolf Creek; and his half brother, Chad Edward Thompson of Pittsburgh, PA.
In honor of Mr. Carr’s wishes, he has been cremated. His remains will stay with his father until he joins him, and they will go on one last adventure together, “yet to be determined.”
To Mr. Carr’s many friends, the family requests that they remember him the way he was.
Lobban Funeral Home in Alderson is in charge of arrangements.
Obituary originally published in the June 9, 2017, edition of The West Virginia Daily News.
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