Sumter County  Georgia Obits Alton Carter
	
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Carter's Uncle Alton 89, Dies at Americus


Americus, GA (AP) Alton Carter, the president's uncle
and the oldest member of the Carter family, died of an
abscessed gall bladder and other complications
Wednesday night.


The 89 year old Carter became ill during the Christmas
holidays, and surgery was performed Jan. 8 at the
Americus Sumter County hospital.  He had been in
intensive care since.


The Rev. Fred Collins will officiate at funeral
services for 11 a. m. Saturday at the Maranatha
Baptist Church near Plains, said Mary Louise Hancock
of Hancock Funeral Home.  Burial will be in the family
plot in the Lebanon Cemetery on the outskirts of
Plains.


President Carter, who was scheduled to be in Atlanta
Friday night for a fund-raising dinner, "will be
present" at the services, said Sen. Hugh Carter, Alton
Carter's son.  


Mayor of his hometown of nearby Plains for 28 years
and a Sumter County commissioner for seven years,
Alton Carter operated a general store in Plains from
1909 until 1971.  


He later sold out to his son Hugh. 


Born in Arlington, Ga., August 17, 1888, Carter at age
15 moved his mother, two sisters and younger brother,
James Earl Carter, father of President Carter, to
Plains from Rowena, Ga.  James Earl Carter died in
1953.


Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Betty Jennings
Carter; sons Hugh and Don, and two sisters, Mrs. Lula
Fleming of Birmingham and Mrs. Jeanette Lowery of
Tallahassee, Fla.


Source:  The Albany (Ga.) Herald - Thursday, January
19, 1978 Page 6B.

Submitted by: Brenda King McNair <Bmcnair614@aol.com> 


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