Greenbrier County WV Archives Obituaries.....Carter, Mary Aretta Highlander
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Louise Perkins <perkins @digital.net>, September 20, 1998

Mrs. Mary Aretta Carter, aged 81 years, of Fort Springs, died Sunday, 
December 13, 1987 at a Richmond, Va. hospital following a long 
illness. Born Nov. 26, 1906 on Muddy Creek Mountain, she was the 
daughter of the late James S. and Mary Burns Highlander. Mrs. Carter 
was a lifelong resident of Fort Springs, attended the Mount Vernon 
United Methodist Church at Fort Springs and was a homemaker. She was 
preceded in death by her husband, Wiliam H. Carter, Jr.; a daughter, 
Phyllis J. Carter, and a son, Charles C. Carter. Survivors include 
five daughters, Margie Fulcher and Joan Massie, both of Fort Springs, 
Anna Mae Bishop of Martinsville, Va., Drema Satterwhite of Richmond, 
Va., and Patty Rothe of Lewisburg; seven sons, James W. Harold Roy and 
Mike Carter, all of Fort Springs, Lloyd and Floyd Carter, both of 
Ronceverte, and Richard Carter of Alderson; a sister, Icle Mashaud of 
Bedford, Maine; 39 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren, and one 
great-great-grandchild. Services were held Wednesday at the Longanacre 
Funeral Home in Fort Springs with the Revs. Stewart Farley and Roy 
Gwinn officiating.  Burial followed in the Mount Vernon Cemetery at 
Fort Springs. Grandsons served as pallbearers.