Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Carter, Lermon F., 1955 

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Rites Tomorrow For L. F. Carter 

  Funeral services for Lermon F. Carter, 58, who died yesterday afternoon at 
the home of a daughter, Mrs. Willie E. Holland, 307 Morgan Street, will be 
held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at the I.O. Hill and Company Funeral Home. 

  The Rev. Julian Hopkins, pastor of the Main Street Baptist Church, will 
conduct the services.  Burial will follow in the family Cemetery near Holland. 

  Mr. Carter was the son of the late James Henry and Rebecca Harrell Carter, 
of Gates County, N.C. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eunice Copeland Carter, of Suffolk; and, 
besides Mrs. Holland, by two other daughters, Mrs. Houston E. Powell, of 
Washington, D.C., and Miss Joanne Carter, of Suffolk, and one step-daughter, 
Miss Christine Palmer, also of Suffolk; two sons, T-Sgt. George L. Carter, 
USAF, stationed at Briggs Field, Texas, and Sgt. Marvin E. Carter, USAF, 
stationed at Perrins Field, Texas; a step-son, Eugene Palmer, of Suffolk; 
two sisters, Mrs. L.L. Jernigan, of Nansemond County, and Mrs. P.R. Umphlette 
of Suffolk, and two grandchildren. 

  He was a member of Suffolk Christian Church. 


Lermon Floyd CARTER, wholesale grocery shipping clerk, 
b. 27 Aug 1896*, Gates Co., NC, d. 6 Jul 1955, at daughter's home, Suffolk, 
interred in the HOLLAND family cemetery*, O'Kelly Dr., 8 Jul 1955, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 33, No. 150, Thurs., July 7, 1955, p. 9, 
   clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #239190426, 
   by Martha Fontaine Byrum 

*Additional information: 

Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (NV-II-12), an extension 
   of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol2.txt 

A photo of her Hill Funeral Home marker - added by Martha Fontaine Byrum - 
   is also posted with Find a Grave Memorial #239190426. 

Find a Grave calls it the George W. Holland Cemetery. (Cemetery ID #2751631) 

D.Cert. 15811 (Suffolk #42) 

The 1900 Census - Hall Dist., Gates Co., NC - gives b. Aug 1897. 

His WW-II draft card gives b. 27 Aug 1897. 

He 1m. 10 Jan 1917 Hilah Irene HOLLAND (1897 - 1936). Her obits 
   ("Suffolk News-Herald," May 4 & 6, 1936) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c636h3ob.txt 

His brother John Jefferson CARTER (1886 - 1950) Hilah's sister Nancy L. 
   HOLLAND; he is buried with his second wife in the Holland Municipal Cemetery. 
   Holland list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holland.txt 

Lermon's widow Eunice Irene (COPELAND PALMER) CARTER (ca. 1914 - 1994) 
   3m. a HARRELL. 


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