Maryellen Carr

Maryellen Carr passed away, at age 56, on Sunday November 3, 2013, at Memorial Medical Hospital. She died peacefully in her sleep after a 14 month battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband Sam, her mother Peggy Foxworthy, Brothers John, Tim, and Michael of Los Angeles California. She was born in Los Angeles August 23, 1957. She was married in a traditional Hawaiian ceremony on February 10 1989 at the Iconic Mona Kea hotel Overlooking a Perfect Rainbow sunset on the Island of Hawaii. She was a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and Long Beach State with dual degrees in Food Science and Art History. She worked in the food and beverage department of the Awanhee Hotel in Yosemite National park for 10 years. While she was there she ran the restaurant, planned over 500 weddings, and hosted Queen Elizabeth the second on her tour of America. She was instrumental in creating the vintner dinners with the Mondavi and Seagrams family to help promote California wine around the world. In 1984 she went to work for the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel in California as a catering manager. She became a top sales producer for Hyatt and met her future husband Sam there. He was promoted and she followed him to Louisville Kentucky in 1986. He was promoted again and she followed him to the Hyatt Regency Waikoloa on the island of Hawaii in 1988. She was again hired into the F&B department of the Hyatt where she ran one of the hotel restaurants, then moving into catering as a top sales producer. When her husband was promoted to the Hyatt Regency Hilton Head she followed him to Bluffton South Carolina in September 1989. She was active in a small catering company on Hilton Head, and helped plan the Summer Olympic events that took place in Savannah Georgia. Then she started to make costumes for the Hilton Head children's theater which led to costume design and production with the Hilton Head Ballet, the Savannah Ballet, and the Hilton Head Arts Center Theater. When the Children's theater closed she went to work for Timeless Interiors as a free lance seamstress. She has also served as Treasurer of her neighborhood home owners association for the last the last nineteen years.