Carter, Wilma Ruth (Nolin) 1916-2015

CARTER, NOLIN, FENNEMA, BRUHN, ROTH, SEMS, THOMSON, MODRAK

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 3/25/2015 at 15:16:49

Wilma Carter
December 1, 1916 - March 20, 2015

Wilma Ruth Nolin Carter died peacefully at about 6:30 in the evening of the first day of spring at The Knolls of Oxford Healthcare Center as two of her daughters, a granddaughter, and a friend sang the hymn, "He Leadeth Me" at her bedside.

She was born December 1, 1916 near Monroe, Iowa, the third child of Elvin and Cattolina Fennema Nolin and died March 20, 2015 in Oxford, Ohio. She lived in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa as a child, graduating from high school in Arkansas City, Kansas in 1933. She attended Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa and taught school in Iowa. She graduated from Cleveland State University in 1968.

On Feb 3, 1939 she married Clyde Corley Carter, then a seminary student at Boston University, in Boston, Massachusetts. The couple moved first to New Hampshire, where Rev. Carter served as a Methodist minister, and then to Iowa where they served in a number of pastorates. Rev. Carter also served pastorates in Indiana and Ohio, worked with the Easter Seal Society, and later was a Director of Goodwill Industries in Mobile, Alabama and in Ohio.

After her husband's death in 1976, Wilma moved to Oxford, Ohio to live near a daughter, Charlotte Bruhn. She worked for many years as a substitute teacher. She gardened and mowed her own grass into her late eighties, although every winter she said, "I don't think I'll have a garden this year," much to the amusement of her son-in-law. She was a reader of books and magazines and avidly interested in politics to the end of her life. She never failed to try to help her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and friends. She taught her grandchildren to love asparagus and spoiled them for anybody else's crescent rolls or sugar cookies.

She was active in the Oxford United Methodist Church, in the Morning Circle of United Methodist Women, and in the Oxford Senior Center.

She is survived by four daughters, Charlotte (the late William Bruhn), Sylvia Diana (Michael Howard Roth), Alice (Ewald Sems), and Patricia (Steven Thomson), nine grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren, a brother, R. Gene Nolin (Marjorie), and many friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Floy Nolin Modrak, and her brother, John M. Nolin. She is to be buried next to her husband in Silent Cemetery in Monroe, Iowa. Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 27, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. at the Monroe United Methodist Church. ~ The Coburn Funeral Home, Colfax, Iowa 20 Mar 2015.