SAN ZENONE DEGLI EZZELINI (TREVISO) – Moved goodbye to Barbara Carron, entrepreneur and former vice president of Padova Calcio, died of cancer at 51. From the altar of the church of Cà Rainati, the grandchildren: «You, dear aunt, were in love with life». Then the white coffin leaves the church amidst the applause of those present.
Church packed for the farewell to the entrepreneur
Astonished faces, there is still an air of disbelief and pain, a lot, for the loss of the one who everyone described as “a great woman”. There were many of us this morning, 8 June, in the parish church of Cà Rainati, to say our final farewell to Carron, a point of reference for the company Carron Costruzioni Generali Spa of San Zenone degli Ezzelini, one of the leading brands in the world of construction. Authorities, well-known faces from business and sport and also from politics. Among these, also the governor of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, the director of Local Health Authority 2 Francesco Benazzi, the sports director Marcello Cestaro.
The grandchildren: «We felt that you wanted to be there»
On the sidelines of the ceremony, all the grandchildren climbed the altar of the church and read a moving message: «Your posts were a daily prayer for us – they said -. We felt that you were there and that you wanted to be there.” A few days before his death, his last post on Facebook: «Enjoy every single thing that life gives you: never put anything off. Don’t think you have time forever because that’s not the case. You are wrong. We think everything adds up. That there is plenty of time: this is not the case. Time is an unknown and we must take advantage of it because everything is given away, it is a gift. A wonderful gift that Mother Earth makes available to us.” At the end of the moment of remembrance, a thunderous and spontaneous embrace rose from the pews and accompanied Barbara’s coffin on her last journey.
The Calcio Padova shirt
The Calcio Padova t-shirt was placed on the first pew of the church and, above the coffin, a scarf of the Biancoscudati was placed. Carron was vice president of the biancoscudata sports club between 2005 and 2013, before the discovery of her illness. «The whole Biancoscudata family, from Joseph Oughourlian, Francesco Peghin, Alessandra Bianchi, Luca Destro, Paolo Salot, Moreno Beccaro, Gianni Potti and all of Calcio Padova, gathers around the Carron family in this moment of pain for the passing of dear Barbara – this is how the company remembered her on Instagram -. Barbara Carron, 51 years old, entrepreneur of the Carron company, one of the leading brands in the world of construction, vice president of Calcio Padova from 2008 to 2012 where she won a promotion to Serie B in the control room in the final in Busto Arsizio, a salvation in the cadetry at the Nereo Rocco in Trieste e touching Serie A in the final against Novara, it was seriously ill for almost two years, an illness that he fought with tenacity, telling it directly without fear and hypocrisy. Hi Barbara”.
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