Carroll Paul Trosclair

Carroll Paul Trosclair, a retired newsman, public relations practitioner, author, and long-time Kiwanian, died February 11, 2025, after 95 adventurous and happy years. He was preceded in death by his first wife of 43 years, Genevieve Negrotto Trosclair of New Orleans, his second wife of 26 years, Betty Mae Brooks Romach Trosclair, and his parents, Maurice John Trosclair and Iris Theresa Bourg Trosclair of Houma, Louisiana. He is survived by three children, Thomas Barry Trosclair of Ponchatoula (Rose); Mary Lynne Trosclair Murphy of New Orleans (Bobby) and Dr. Gary S. Trosclair of Tuckahoe (Nancy Eisenman), New York; by stepdaughter Deborah Ann Rombach Auster (John) of Metairie; by eight grandchildren: Melissa Trosclair, Candace Trosclair Phillips (Thorn) and Mark Trosclair (Danelle) of Ponchatoula, Lindsay Murphy Maloan of Metairie (Drake), and Patrick Michael Murphy (Emily) of Memphis, Zoe Trosclair of Brooklyn, New York, and Thea Trosclair of Tuckahoe, New York; seven great-grandchildren: Isaac, Sarah and Caleb Phillips of Ponchatoula, and Bennett, Genevieve and Kellen-Clair Maloan of Metairie, and Margot Collette Murphy of Memphis; by numerous lovable nieces and nephews; and wonderful long-time friends.

He was a 1943 graduate of McDonogh 7 Elementary School, a 1947 graduate, class historian, and self-described slow member of the track team at Warren Easton High School; a 1951 journalism graduate of Loyola University and a 1957 graduate of Louisiana State University with a master’s degree in public opinion.

He admitted having a short job-interest span but never regretted any of his career changes. He was a sportswriter and city reporter for the New Orleans States; served with the Seventh Army Tank Training Center in Germany during the Korean War; served as New Orleans bureau and Louisiana news manager for United Press International; served as press secretary to United States Senate President Pro Tem Allen J. Ellender of Houma; as vice president of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of New Orleans; as a partner of the Carroll Trosclair & Associates Inc. public relations agency; as a partner and president of Kalman, Rogers, and Trosclair Inc.; as a partner and president of The Public Relations Group Inc.; and as the president of the New Orleans Chapter of The Public Relations Society of America.

He authored “America’s Last Real Homefront,” a book about the United States during World War II, and “What Fortune Sends We Meet: Highlights of Warren Easton High School’s First 170 Years.” He was a member since 1998 and past president of the Kenner North Kiwanis Club, and a self-described lousy golfer. He lived, for varying lengths of time, in Houma, New Orleans, Arabi, Metairie, and Kenner, Louisiana, as well as Rockville, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Vilseck, Germany, and Starkville, Mississippi, whose people warmly welcomed him and Betty after Hurricane Katrina.

A Celebration of Life for Carroll will occur on Sunday, February 16, 2025, at Leitz-Eagan Funeral Home, 4747 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, Louisiana. Visitation will begin at 9:30 am until the Chapel Service at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in his honor to Hogs for the Cause, Team Chew Forks Farms (pediatric cancer), or Second Harvest Food Bank.