Carol Lynn Schnall

SALISBURY — Carol Lynn Schnall (née Singer) of New York, New York, and Salisbury, passed away on Sunday, April 9, 2023, at the age of 81, due to heart failure.

The only child of Samuel (“Buddy”) Singer III and Lillian (Chait) Singer, Carol is survived by her beloved and devoted husband of almost 58 years, Norman, her children Marianne (Tom Kay); Eric (Shax Riegler); her grandchildren Jazmin and Lotus, and many relatives and close friends.

A lifelong New Yorker, Carol was born in Manhattan on Jan. 16, 1942, and was raised on the Upper West Side. She was a graduate of P.S. 87, Julia Richman High School, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received a BA in Political Science. She served as the President and CEO of Specialty Products Company, of Jersey City, New Jersey, which supplied lubricants to the Glass Container Industry. She was one of the only female executives in the industry and served as the first female chair of the Phoenix Awards Committee along with other related industrial organizations.

Carol had a deep interest in many social and political causes including women’s rights and racial justice. She loved the arts and culture, especially theater and world travel.

Carol and her husband Norman bought their house in the Amesville section of Salisbury in 1986. Their son Eric and his partner Shax, also Manhattanites, have had their own home in Salisbury since 2013. Carol loved so much about the Northwest Corner, and especially adored spring and summer when she could be in nature and tend to her garden. She had the ability to make people around her feel both at ease and accepted. She will be greatly missed.

Private services were held on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Donations in her memory may be made to her favorite non-profit organization, The League of Women Voters of The City of New York.