Ann S. Carlton

Ann was reared in the Bibb County mining town of Piper by her parents, Benjamin and Florida Sherrod. She attended Birmingham-Southern College before graduating from business college.

Prior to World War II, Ann moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for the War Department and married Clayton Charles (“Ole”) Carlton, from St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1941. They were married until his death in 2004. During their time in Washington, their daughter, the late Barbara Carlton Traylor, was born.

Ann and Ole later lived in Birmingham, Alabama; St. Paul, Minnesota; Decatur, Alabama; Gadsden, Alabama; and Homewood, Alabama. Ann lived on Devon Drive in Homewood for 38 years, and at Mount Royal Towers for her final ten years.

Ann is survived by her sister Ruth McCoy, from Deerfield, Illinois; son Eric Carlton (Cheree), from Vestavia Hills; grandson Tim Carlton (Lydia), from Auburn, Alabama; granddaughter Pamela Culp (Nathan), from Wilmington, North Carolina; great-grandson, Chance Carlton, from Auburn; and several cousins, nieces and nephews.

Ann enjoyed her career as a legal secretary, where she worked with, among others, Congressman Jim Martin in Gadsden and U.S. Circuit Judge Robert Vance in Birmingham.

In retirement, Ann pursued her interest in genealogy, researching multiple family lines into the eighteenth century or earlier. She was an active and enthusiastic member of the Birmingham Territory Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the George Maris Chapter of the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, the Alabama Charter Chapter of the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812, and the Southern Cross Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Ann was a lifelong Methodist, and a longtime member of First United Methodist Church in Birmingham.

The family wishes to thank the staff of Mount Royal Towers for their thoughtfulness and care during Ann’s residency, and final illness, there.

Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at 11:00 a.m., at Ridout’s Valley Chapel in Homewood. The family will receive guests at 10:00 in the Chapel. Burial will be at Elmwood Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to KDS DAR School, 6077 Main Street, Grant AL 35747, or to First United Methodist Church.