Obit: Mrs. Lillian Stinson-Carter - Bossier Parish, La.



Submitted by: Susan Shaver

Source: Shreveport Times, October 02, 1965





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Prominent Bossier Parish Resident Dies: 



Mrs. Lillian Stinson Carter, 82, of Benton, a lifelong resident of Bossier 

Parish, died Thursday at 7:45 a.m. at the Heritage Manor Nursing Home in 

Bossier City after a lengthy illness, and funeral services will be held 

Friday at 2 p.m. at the Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Bossier City. 



Mrs. Carter was the daughter of the late Cornelia Annette Woodruff and T. W. 

W. Stinson.  She was the widow of W. W. Carter, Sr., who was mayor of Benton 

for a number of years. 



She attended Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and was a member of the 

Benton Methodist Church. 



Mrs. Carter is survived by two sons, W. W. Carter, Jr., and E. L. Carter, 

both of Benton; two daughters, Mrs. Annette Carter Glover of Bossier City and 

Mrs. Irma Carter Bailey of Shreveport; a brother, D. H. Stinson of Benton; 

and a sister, Mrs. Irma Stinson Kelly of Shreveport; six grandchildren and 

two great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews. 



Funeral services will be held in the Bossier City Rose-Neath Funeral Home 

chapel at 2 p.m. tomorrow, with the Rev. Leon C. Scott, pastor of the Benton 

Methodist Church, officiating, assisted by the Rev. William P. Fraser, pastor 

of First Methodist Church of Bossier City.  Burial will be in Greenwood 

Cemetery. 



Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or to the 

Benton Methodist Church. 



Pallbearers will be J. A. Dunnam, Jr., Tom Richardson, Ford Stinson, Robert 

Stinson, W. D. Smith, W. P. Belcher, Cyrus Zeigler and J. A. Edwards, Jr. 

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