John Robert Carter, Plymouth
A service celebrating the life of John Robert Carter will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday outdoors on the lawn of the Saffordville United Methodist Church on Kahola Road in Toledo Township. The Rev. Beverly Meadows and Newman Regional Health Chaplain Hal Lewis will conduct the service. Cremation will follow the service and an inurnment will be scheduled later.
The family will meet friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls. Instead of flowers, the family requests donations to the Lyon County 4-H Council or the American Cancer Society, sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry St., Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Mr. Carter died Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at Newman Regional Health. He was 45.
The son of Robert E. and Iyla M. Parkman Carter, he was born Jan. 29, 1962, in Emporia. He attended Saffordville Grade School and middle school and high school in Emporia, where he was a member of the debate team, the football team and the wrestling team. He attended Barton County Community College, where he was a member of the livestock judging team, and Emporia State University.
Mr. Carter was a farmer, stockman and carpenter. He worked for Schellhamer Builders for 15 years, then returned to his farm and livestock business and did carpentry projects for people in the area.
He was a member of the Model Boosters 4-H Club, the Flint Hills Chapter of the Future Farmers of America, the Flint Hills Saddle Club and was past president of the Buck Gun Club.
Mr. Carter is survived by his parents of Plymouth; two sisters, Barbara Henson of Ulysses and Debra Byarlay of Salina; and his maternal grandmother, Margaret Parkman of Emporia.
His maternal stepgrandfather, Ernest Cunningham, died earlier, as did his paternal grandparents, Glen P. and Marjorie Carter; maternal grandparents Virgil E. Parkman and Ethel Cunningham; and a paternal great-grandmother, Mabel Carter, who helped care for him much of his life.