She was born November 27, 1926 in Wheeling the daughter of the late Dr Frank N. and Mary E. McNulty Carroll and was a Catholic by faith.

Sally not only won the state amateur title seven times but was also runnerup on six occasions. She holds membership in the West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1978 and the Wheeling Hall of Fame.

The only woman to precede her into the state "hall" was Fritzi Stifel Quarrier, also a Wheeling resident and one of the original inductees into the Wheeling Hall of Fame in 1978.

Carroll's achievements were not limited to her performances on the golf courses of her native state. She advanced to the fourth round of the British Amateur in 1964, was second low amateur twice in the United States Women's Open and teamed with fellow Wheelingite, Nancy Stumpp in 1957 to capture team honors in the Trans-National Tournament. She competed regularly for many years in the annual Virginias-Carolinas matches and has served more than once as the Virginias' captain.

A past president of the West Virginia Golf Association, she served for 20 years on the women's committee of the U.S. Golf Association, which conducts all of the national women's competition. She is past President of the U.S. Senior Women's Golf Association. She was also chairwoman of the USGA girls' junior committee and was responsible for conducting the national girls' tournament. She accepted this responsibility for 10 years.

In 1984, Carroll received the prestigious Card Walker Award, presented by the Professional Golf Association in recognition of her outstanding national contribution to junior golf. Seated upon the dais at Los Angeles with some of the great golfers of the world, she was presented with the award by Card Walker himself. He was then Chairman of Walt Disney Productions, with a reputation as a golf enthusiast instrumental in the promotion and sponsorship of junior golf.

The Wheeling woman received the award just one year after it had gone to Jack Nicklaus.

She was educated in parochial schools of Ohio County. After her graduation from St. Joseph's Academy, she enrolled at Seton Hill College in Greensburg ,PA, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in history and sociology.

After working for both Eastern and Capital Airlines in Washington, D.C., she returned to Wheeling and was employed at Security National Bank. She later went to work for her father, who was an oral surgeon. Finding that she had a deep concern for children, she enrolled at West Liberty State College to earn a teaching certificate.

She began her teaching career at Wheeling Country Day School and later taught at St. Michael Parish School, which she had attended. She entered the Ohio County public school system as a teacher in 1965 at Fulton Elementary School. Not only did she teach at Fulton but also coached the boys' basketball team.

She subsequently taught at Woodsdale Elementary School and then at Triadelphia Junior High.

Her love affair with the sport of golf began when she was introduced to the game at age 10 at Wheeling Country Club, where she was subsequently to become the oft-time club women's champion. She did not take up the sport seriously until her junior year at Seton Hill.

She then began to be active in tournament competition but because the West Virginia Women's Amateur was put on hold during the war years, she did not enter her first state championship until 1948. She went to the final at The Greenbrier that year before being defeatede on the 21st hole of match play.

Carroll completed in the state tournament 10 years before winning her first title in 1959. She was runnerup on five occasions in those 10 years, including four time to seven- time champion Berridge Long Copen of Huntington, who also is now a member of the West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.

The Wheeling club swinger successfully defended her state championship in 1960. In the years from 1963 through 1970, she won five titles, although she did not play in the 1965 and 1966 tournaments. She missed one of those because of a national tournament commitment and the other due to surgery.

Carroll was a charter member of the Wheeling Hall of Fame Board, and served on the sports committee. She was past member of the Wheeling Country Club, and past Board member of the Children's Home of Wheeling.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Kitty Gillooly and Nancy Allendorfer.

Surviving are a sister, Ginny O'Brien of Detroit, MI; a special friend, Sue Vail of Wheeling and several nieces and nephews from Michigan, Maryland, Virginia, Arizona, New Jersey and Florida.

Friends received on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 for a memorial visitation from 5- 8 p m at the Kepner Funeral Home, 900 National Rd, Wheeling (304 232 2732). A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 11 a m at Wheeling Jesuit University Chapel of Mary and Joseph, Wheeling with the Reverend James O'Brien and the Reverend Michael Stelencamp as con-celebrants. Interment in Mt Calvary Cemetery, Wheeling.

Memorial contributions may be made to Liza's Place, 308 Mt. St. Joseph Road, Wheeling, WV 26003.

Personal condolences may be offered to the family at www.kepnerfuneral.com.