Carol A. Andrews, Art Therapist, 55

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Carol A. Andrews, an art therapist who used paintings and sculpture to
treat psychiatric patients and childhood trauma victims, died of sepsis
October 28, 2005, at Salem [Massachusetts] Hospital after two years of
severe illness, at the age of 55.

In the last few years of her life, as she suffered the debilitating
effects of a series of strokes, Carol Ann Andrews's husband, Arthur
Shea, visited her twice a day in the hospital.

"The two of them, their devotion to one another, was quite the talk of
the hospital," said Ms. Andrews's sister, Elizabeth Fau of Camdenton,
Missouri.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Ms. Andrews came to the Boston,
Massachusetts, area in the mid-1970s and studied at Emmanuel College.
According to Ms. Fau, Ms. Andrews came to Boston with a friend, and
loved the area so much that she stayed and the friend returned to St.
Louis. As an early practitioner of art therapy, Ms. Andrews also was an
instructor in the field at Emmanuel, the Art Institute of Boston, and
Lesley University. Eventually, she settled in Beverly.

Ms. Andrews also leaves another sister, Mary Cochran-Elkin of
Chesterfield, Missouri.; and four brothers, Robert of Danville,
Illinois, James of High Ridge, Missouri, and Michael and John of St.
Louis, Missouri.

Boston Globe