Ernest CARTER, aged 40, of South Bend, a former resident of Kewanna, died in the Healthwin hospital at South Bend Sunday morning after a lengthy illness. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion CARTER.
He was a switchman for the R.R. in Hammond and then was engaged in the trucking and later the cafe business at Kewanna with his father prior to the time he moved to South Bend to reside. His wife was Goldie GOOD.
Survivors are the wife, five children, Shirley CARTER, Phyllis CARTER, Ernest CARTER, Jr., Donald CARTER, and Marion CARTER, II, all of South Bend; two sisters, Sadie (CARTER) HOESEL, Culver and Mrs. Phyllis (CARTER) BURK, Bethlehem, Pa., and a brother, Frederick CARTER, Culver.
The last rites will be held from the Baptist church in Kewanna at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon with interment in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Kewanna.
The body will lie in state at the Kewanna Baptist church from noon Wednesday until the hour of the last rites.
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