Carol Fain Walters
Carol Fain Walters, of Needham, MA and Newton, MA, passed away surrounded by family on July 4, 2024, at the age of 88. Born in New York City in 1935, she was raised in Bronxville, NY by her parents, the late William and Pauline (Berger) Goldfine, along with her sister, the late Joyce Walzer (Richard).
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College and a Master of Social Work from Simmons College. She later raised a family in Warwick and Barrington, RI with her beloved husband the late Bernard I. Fain, while serving several terms on the Barrington School Committee and as a program administrator at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI. After the death of her husband in 1980, she spent the next decade in New York where she worked in administration at New York Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her next 20 years were spent in Chestnut Hill, MA where she was a consultant to nonprofit organizations, including the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, and served on the board of the League of Women Voters of Newton. In her retirement, she returned to New York City where she shared her love of poetry by teaching a popular series of courses on an eclectic range of poets at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. She was an accomplished coloratura soprano, avid world traveler, and lover of the many dogs in her life.
She is survived by daughter Barbara Fain and her husband Jason Gilbert of Newton, MA, son Eric Fain and his wife Sonali of Menlo Park and La Jolla, CA, and daughter Katherine Fain and her husband Roger Thomas of New York, NY. She was the loving grandmother of Jennifer Rutherford, Amber Powers and her husband Jason, Nathaniel Gilbert, and Rebecca Gilbert, and great-grandmother to Sloane and Holden Powers.
Memorial service at Temple Shalom in Newton, MA on Monday, July 15, 2024 at 11:00am. Visiting hours at the home of Barbara Fain and Jason Gilbert following the service until 5:00pm and on Tuesday, July 16 from 5:00-7:00pm. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Guiding Eyes for the Blind at www.guidingeyes.org.