Died 14 March 1932

Published in Pilot Tribune on 17 March 1932

DOUBLE FUNERAL IS HELD TODAY

MR. AND MRS. JOHN B. CARTER DIE FEW DAYS APART

A double funeral service for Mr. and Mrs. John B. Carter, who died during the past week, will be held at the First Baptist church this (Thursday) afternoon, with Rev. L. J. Moran, officiating. Interment will be in Blair cemetery.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Carter were pioneer Washington county residents and had spent practically their entire lives in this community. Mr. Carter had been ill approximately eight years, although his condition did not become critical until a few weeks ago. He passed away in Lincoln, where he had been taking treatments, last Friday evening. Funeral services for Mr. Carter had been planned for Monday but that day when it became apparent that Mrs. Carter, who was ill at the Blair hospital and did not know of the death of her husband, had but a short time to live, funeral arrangements were postponed. Mrs. Carter passed away Monday evening at 10:30.

A resident of Washington county for over three quarters of a century, Mr. Carter was one of the best known pioneer farmers in the vicinity of Blair. He was born in Ohio but came to Nebraska with his parents when he was six months of age. He farmed near Herman after his parents had retired and in 1914 he and his wife moved to Blair. They built a fine and spacious bungalow on west Front street and until his condition necessitated his removal to a sanitarium, they lived there. He was 76 years of age.

Mrs. Carter as Nettie Stilts was born at Fort Calhoun. She came from a pioneer family and both she and her husband were among the early settlers who endured the dangers and sacrificed comforts in helping transform this district from a wilderness into one of the most fertile regions of the state. Mrs. Carter was 68 year of age. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carter were active in affairs of the community. Mr. Carter held a membership in Washington Masonic lodge at Blair for many years while his wife was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and a member of the W.R.C. Mr. and Mrs. Carter had no children. their only direct relatives are two sisters of Mr. Carter, Mrs. Julia Lippincott of Belle Flower, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, and Miss Dora Carter of Hot Springs, South Dakota, who has been visiting in Blair for some time.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~