Tom Carvel

Tom Carvel

Interment LocationVisited 
Hartsdale, NYAugust 25, 2017 

Photographed August 25, 2017.
Photographed August 25, 2017.
Photographed August 25, 2017.
Photographed August 25, 2017.

Fast Facts

Born: July 14, 1906 in Athens, Greece

Spouse: Agnes Burnett Stewart Carvel (m. 1937-1990)

Died: October 21, 1990 in Pine Plains, New York

Age: 84

Interment: Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, Greenburgh, New York

"The professionals ridicule my commercials, but who cares? You can have a six-foot-tall, handsome announcer with a perfect voice, perfect diction, perfect grammar. But very few ice cream buyers look like that. Our commercials are for the people who look like us, talk like us, and sound like us."
- Tom Carvel

Sources Consulted and Further Reading

Glenn Fowler. “Tom Carvel, 84, Gravelly Voice Of Soft Ice Cream Chain, Is Dead.” New York Times. October 22, 1990. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/22/obituaries/tom-carvel-84-gravelly-voice-of-soft-ice-cream-chain-is-dead.html.

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