Roger Carron, retired managing editor of The Tribune in Nassau, the Bahamas, has died. He was 77.
Carron died early Sunday at a Fort Lauderdale hospital of complications following a heart attack last week in the Bahamas, the newspaper said.
His son and his wife, the newspaper's publisher, were at his bedside.
Carron was born on June 13, 1932, in Eastbourne, Sussex, England.
He met his future wife, Eileen Dupuch, while finishing his legal studies in London in 1960. Carron had intended to take over his father's law practice in Sri Lanka. Instead, he joined her when she returned to the Bahamas to help her father with The Tribune, the newspaper her family founded.
Before moving to the British island territory in 1962, Carron worked at a newspaper in the Allied Midland Press group in Peterborough, England, for nine months to gain journalism experience so he could work at The Tribune. As a non-Bahamian, he would not have been able to practice law.
The Carrons married in January 1963 and worked together at the daily newspaper over the next 30 years. Carron rose from reporter to news editor and finally managing editor. He retired in the mid-1990s when he developed heart problems, but maintained a presence in the newsroom.
In addition to his wife, Carron is survived by his son, Robert, the president of the newspaper. Services have not been finalized.
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