THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, December 2, 1994 TAG: 9412020490
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B8 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: SALISBURY, MD. LENGTH: Short : 50 lines
Samuel Sidney Carey, former Maryland and Virginia Broadcast Executive, died Wednesday, Nov. 30, of cancer at Deer's Head Center.
Sam Carey left Salisbury, Md., for Richmond, Va., in 1942 to work as an announcer at WRVA radio. He went on to become program manager there, and established WRVC radio in Norfolk (now WOWI) before moving to television, helping put what is now WWBT-TV (then WRVA TV) on the air in Richmond in 1956. Carey was station manager at WWBT when he returned home to Salisbury in 1970 to manage WBOC-AM-FM-TV. His community activities in Richmond included chairing the Governor's Commission to Study Mental Health in Virginia in the late 1960s. He was vice president of the Richmond Junior Chamber of Commerce, and vice president of the Richmond Tuberculosis Association.
In Salisbury, while president of WBOC, Inc., Carey was president of the Maryland, D.C., and Delaware Broadcasters Association and the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce. When the WBOC stations were split up and sold by the Baltimore Sunpapers in 1980, Carey went to the radio stations as president and general manager of WSBY-WQHQ. During this time he was also trustee of Peninsula Regional Medical Center and president of Peninsula General Health Services (66th Street Medical Center) in Ocean City.
He was treasurer of the CBS Radio Affiliates Association when he retired in 1984.
Born in Salisbury Sept. 8, 1915, he was the son of Marian Alfred and Della McGrath Carey. He was graduated from Wicomico High School in 1932 and received his B.S. degree from Salisbury State University in 1937. He began his career in broadcasting at WSAL radio in Salisbury in 1939 and worked in WBOC from 1940 until moving to Richmond in 1942.
Carey is survived by his wife, Pauline White Carey, and three children: Roger Neill Carey, a clinical chemist in Salisbury; Sidney Lee Carey, who works in the Memphis office of the Internal Revenue Service; and Jane Carey Gardner, a television news anchor in Norfolk, Va.
He is also survived by a granddaughter, Lisa Childers of Memphis, Tenn.; and a sister, Sara Carey Eaton of Havre de Grace, Md. A younger brother, Alfred Marian Carey, died several years ago.
A funeral will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. in Holloway Funeral Home, Salisbury. Friends may call Friday evening from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Peninsula Regional Medical Center and Trinity Methodist Church, Salisbury.
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