W. DUDLEY CARTER, 72

Rev. W. Dudley Carter, a Blair native and son of a pioneer Blair family, died at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair on July 4th. Rev. Carter, born on a farm north of Blair, was 72 years of age. He was born April 13, 1900.

He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Carter, one-time owners of much of the ground on which the City of Blair now stands.

He attended Pleasant View rural school and was a graduate of Blair High School. He attended Nebraska State University at Lincoln, graduating in 1924 with a B. S. degree in Vocational Agriculture. He also attended Cornell University at Ithaca, New York.

For five years, he taught Vocational Agriculture to the Indian students at Bacone Baptist College at Muskogee, Oklahoma.

His next position was that of superintendent and vocational agriculture instructor of the Scotia Consolidated School at Scotia, Nebraska. It was there that he met Laura Anderson, who was the Norman Training teacher. They were married June 20, 1933. The have one son, Lee, of Boise, Idaho, where he is the Idaho State Supervisor of Industrial Arts. There are two grand-daughters, Susan and Brenda.

Rev. and Mrs. Carter worked among the Omaha Indians at Macy and the Winnebago Indians at Winnebago for two years.

In the fall of 1939, Rev. Carter entered Central Baptist Seminary at Kansas City, Kansas where he received a B.S degree and was ordained a Baptist minister. He has held pastorates in Kansas, Idaho, and Iowa. In 1970, he was interim pastor of the Tekamah Baptist Church for four months.

For the past 14 ¼ years he conducted a radio program with weekly message: “Meditations of Your County Persons”. This has been heard on KHUB, Fremont and KFTC-FM of Sioux City.

He is survived by his wife, Laura, of Tekamah and son Lee. He is also survived by two brothers and one sister. The brothers are W. Douglas Carter of Blair and Charles Jacob Carter of Glendale, Arizona. The one sister is Francis Minerva of Mesa, Arizona.

Funeral services will be held at the Tekamah Baptist Church Saturday, July 8th at 2 p.m. Burial will be made in the Blair Cemetery. The Rev. Orval Roache will conduct the service. The Bendorf Funeral Home of Blair will be in charge.

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