CARTER, Jack Albert 1927-2001

CARTER, WHITE, MORR, OLENDER, DISHER, SALINAS, HARBERTS, CASTILLO, BLAIR

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 12/30/2012 at 22:57:18

WATERLOO - Retired Chief Petty Officer Jack Albert Carter, 73, of Toledo, Ohio, formerly of Waterloo, died Monday, April 16, 2001, at his home after a lengthy illness.

He was born Oct. 19, 1927, in Ferguson, son of Harvey and Dorothy White Carter.

Mr. Carter enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944 and spent his entire career there. He served on six ships, the USS Nashville, Marlboro, Gearing, Locator, Everglades and James C. Owens, as well as at the Great Lakes Recruiting Center. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 1974 as a hull maintenance technician 1st class, having served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He served as past president of the Lancer Unit of the Zenobia Shrine.

Survived by two sons, Michael and Spencer, both of Toledo; four daughters, Patt Morr of Sylvania, Ohio, Jacquie Olender of Ottawa Lake, Mich., Karri Disher of Toledo and Deborah Salinas of Lambertville; 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; a brother, George Carolus of Waterloo; and four sisters: Merelyn Harberts of Hudson, Colleen Castillo and Bobbie White, both of Kimberling City, Mo., and Georgia Blair of Shelton, Wash.

Services: were at Strabler Funeral Home, Toledo, with burial in Raker Cemetery, Delta, Ohio.

Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Northwest Ohio, 30000 E. River Road, Perrysburg, Ohio 43551, or the Lancer Unit of the Zenobia Shrine, 1511 Madison Ave., Toledo, Ohio 43624.

[Source: Iowa Statewide Obituary Collection]