Orville Carter

CARTER, KIBBY

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 3/9/2021 at 11:06:44

Carrol Daily Times Herald
8 January, 1980

Manning- Orville Carter, 77, a retired Manning farmer, died at Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, Sunday, Jan. 6. He had been in failing health for several years. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, at the Ohde Funeral Home here with the Rev. Donald Jones, pastor of the Untied Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in the Manning cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Grace, a daughter Mrs. Beal (Leota) Austin, Des Moines; a son Merlin, Manning; six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and a brother Dallas Carter, Defiance. He was preceded by two sons: Gailen Lyle and Ivan Dean, his parents, a brother and a sister. Mr. Carter was born Oct. 13, 1902, near Watertown, S. D., a son of Harry and Grace Kibby Carter. In 1904, he moved with his family to a farm south of Manilla and in 1910 moved to the Defiance vicinity. He attended rural school near his home and the Defiance public school. He was married to Grace E. Goodwin June 23, 1925, at the Methodist parsonage in Harlan. They farmed neat Defiance and in 1941 moved to a farm south of Manning. They retired to Manning in 1961.