Delaware Co. PAGenWeb Archives Obituaries - Florence May (nee Habbersett) CARTER, 1948 Contributed to PAGenWeb Archives by Nancy Annie Odegard - Nurse73NAO@aol.com ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ CARTER, Florence May (nee Habbersett) 1948 23 December 1948 Thursday Chester Times "Mrs. Florence M. Carter -- Member of Habbersett Family" Mrs. FLORENCE MAY HABBERSETT CARTER, of Hunter street, Lima, a sister of the owners of the HABBERSETT Pork Products Company, died at Chester Hospital Wednesday at 3.33 p.m. Death followed a month's illness. Mrs. CARTER was 65 on Nov. 14. Born in Middletown Township Mrs. CARTER lived in the county all of her life with the exception of a short time in the midwest with her husband, WALTER C. CARTER, who survives. He is employed at the Sharpe and Dohme Laboratories in Glenolden. The couple returned here in 1919. Mrs. CARTER formerly attended the Mt. Hope Methodist Church, Concord road. Surviving besides her husband are two daughters, Mrs. PRESLEY LAWRENCE and Mrs. ALVIN MOOR, both of Pennell road, Lima; two sons, AMOS M. CARTER, of Convent road, Rockdale and ELDON P. CARTER, of Knowlton road, Middletown Township; eight grandsons and three granddaughters. Also surviving are three brothers, ISAAC S. HABBERSETT, of Knowlton road and E. HARPER HABBERSETT, Jr., of Middletown road, Middletown Township, who together operate the Pork Products Company on Knowlton road, and CHARLES W. HABBERSETT, of 32 East Sixth street, Media, and three sisters, Mrs. J. CLARENCE BONSALL, of Middletown road; Mrs. WILLIAM H. DUTTON, of Garden City, and Mrs. JAMES W. DALTRY, of 411 East State street, Media. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m., at the Rigby Funeral Home, Baltimore avenue and Jackson street, Media. Rev. H. H. Truax, pastor of the Mt. Hope Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Middletown Presbyterian Cemetery. Friends may call this evening at the funeral home. Note: Daughter of Esmonde H. Habbersett & Hannah L. Whitaker (d/o Joshua Whitaker & Sarah Lawton) Great-granddaughter of Jabez (of England) and Sarah Lawton Nine siblings: Sarah (nee Habbersett) Bonsall; Priscilla (nee Habbersett) Dutton; Isaac S. Habbersett; Florence (nee Habbersett) Carter; William C. Habbersett; Charles W. Habbersett; Bertha (nee Habbersett) Daltry; Joshua W. Habbersett; and Esmonde Harper Habbersett, Jr. This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/delaware/obits/c/carter-fmh.txt