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Pamela Carson, 56
began group for children By Corey Dulling, Globe Correspondent, 10/9/2000
Ms. Carson was born in Longmeadow. She attended Skidmore College and graduated from the University of Denver in 1966.
While in her 20s, Ms. Carson started Boston Flea Market in Faneuil Hall. The shop moved indoors and became known as Boston Marketplace. She opened branches in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Her goal, she said, was to open the first ''quality-control'' flea market in the country.
''I wanted professionals - licensed antique dealers, excellent crafts people, with the real thing, not reproductions and not junk,'' Ms. Carson told the Globe in 1976.
In 1977, she opened Friends & Company on State Street in Boston. The establishment was a combination pub-restaurant and antiques shop. The antiques and crafts were decorations, but everything on display was for sale.
Ms. Carson received many awards and was the subject of several articles on business women.
Ms. Carson sold her businesses in 1987 and moved to Ithaca, using the proceeds to found Educate the Children. She developed ETC from a one-woman operation to an organization with offices in Katmandu, Nepal.
ETC's programs aided 12,000 women and children and became a model for village development.
She resigned as executive director in 1997 after she was diagnosed with cancer. Ms. Carson became a spokeswoman on helping cancer patients, lecturing and producing a video on living with cancer called, ''Enjoy yourself! It's Later Than You Think.''
She leaves a son, Ram Saran Thapa of Ithaca; and two sisters, Gail Carson of Boston and Sally Carson of Chapel Hill, N.C.
A memorial service will be held Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. in the Unitarian Church of Ithaca.
This story ran on page B7 of the Boston Globe on 10/9/2000.
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amela Carson of Ithaca, N.Y., a former flea market and restaurant owner in Boston and founder of Educate the Children, an organization for children and women in Nepal, died Friday at home of gastric cancer. She was 56.