Lula Marie Carter

Lula Marie Carter

Mrs. Carter, a resident of Cleveland, Texas, since 1984, was born in Piggott, Arkansas, on May 4, 1926. She attended Williams College for two years. After raising her family she went back to college and graduated from Brescia University in Kentucky with a bachelor's degree in education. She completed her master's degree in education from Western Kentucky University. She lived in Kentucky for 30 years and taught kindergarten through sixth grade in the Breckenridge County School System for 20 years. Upon retirement she moved to Cleveland and taught five additional years at Southside Elementary School.

Upon her second retirement from teaching she did missionary work with Youth with a Mission and taught English in Malaysia and Eastern Europe. She was a volunteer for Cleveland Regional Medical Center for 14 years and a member of Healthy Women, Pilot Club and Senior Circle. Her church was a vital and important part of her life and she was a member of Liberty Church (Liberty Christian Fellowship) for 25 years. She was very excited about the new church facility to be built and planned to sit in her lawn chair and watch it constructed. Even threatened to get a shovel and help them.

Mrs. Carter loved to travel and work in her garden and flowers. She traced her great-grandfathers who fought in the Civil War and recently visited the battlefields where they fought.

She was preceded in death her husband of 38 years, Dr. O.C. Carter, Jr. of Hardinsburg, Ky.; a daughter, Lynda Theresa Bennett Logsdon; sister, Frances Binkley, and parents, Robert and Lula Johnson.

She is survived by three children, Frieda White of Cleveland and husband Bob, sons Dr. Steven A. Carter and wife Sharon of Louisville, Ky., and Rev. Douglas Carter and wife Tonya of Indiana, 14 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and numerous friends.

The family wishes to thank Linda Wood, R.N., and her granddaughter, Missy Bailey, for their constant nursing care the last five days of her life.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 1, at Pace-Stancil Chapel with interment to follow at the Cleveland Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

In lieu of usual remembrances, the family requests that anyone who would desire to make a donation do so to the Liberty Church Building Fund at 601 North Washington, Cleveland, Texas 77327.

Pace-Stancil Funeral Home of Cleveland was in charge of the arrangements.