CARTER, EVERETTE EARL, US Army, Serial No. 6320050. Funeral services for Everette Earl CARTER, 62, were conducted Friday, from Waynesboro Methodist Church at 2 P.M. The Reverend W. A. ADAMS officiated and burial was in Shields Cemetery with Middle Tennessee Funeral Home in charge of arrangements
Mr. CARTER died Wednesday 16 March 1960 at home after three months of illness.
He was a native of Wayne County, a son of Preston Everette and Mattie TATUM CARTER. He was a member of the Waynesboro Methodist Church and had been a member of the Waynesboro Masonic Lodge for 30 years.
Mr. CARTER had been employed by the US Corps of Army Engineers and also employed by the Department of Interior and U.S. Bureau of Public Roads during the building of the Natchez Trace Parkway.
He started the Wayne County Mutual Burial Association in 1931 and operated the E.E. CARTER Funeral Home for several years. Mr. CARTER owned and operated the first hardware store in Waynesboro, and he was also in the dry goods business at one time. He was a veteran of World War I serving overseas from 1919 until 1921.
Survivors include is wife, Mrs. LouElla MERRIMAN CARTER, three daughters: Mrs. Betty Lou BATES of Pompano, Florida, Mrs. Mary Ann CURTIS of Nashville and Miss Jeanette CARTER (NUTT) of Waynesboro; a son, David CARTER of Nashville; a brother, Clay CARTER of Waynesboro; two half-sisters: Mrs. Mary SMITH and Mrs. Nancy CROSBY of Lawrenceburg, three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Mr. CARTER was also a brother to Mrs. Nellie CARTER LONG of Waynesboro who preceded him in death. Submitted by Naomi PEVAHOUSE (niece).