Mamie "Tink" Carter

Mrs. Carter was born the youngest of ten children to Henry Shubel and Mattie Rodena Nance Kearns on May 17, 1922 in Farmer, (Randolph County) N.C. She graduated from Farmer High School and attended Bryce Business College. She had been a resident of High Point most of her life and was previously employed in sales with Friedman’s Fashions. Mrs. Carter was a member of Rankin Memorial United Methodist Church and the Ladies Circle of the church. She lived a graceful life, never complaining, and enjoyed her roses and her fashions and jewelry. Mrs. Carter dearly loved her family and her pet cat, Frosty. She was preceded in death by her five sisters; Grace Wilbourne, “Nick” Batdorf, “Toots Coleman, Annie Lee Hunt, and Florine Yates; and her four brothers “Doc”, Howard, Val, and Allen Kearns. On January 25, 1941 she married the love of her life, Willis Carter who preceded her in death May 3, 1996.

Surviving are her daughter and son-in-law; Susan and Billy Koontz, Sr. of High Point, three grandchildren Norman Parrish (Susan), Kelly Banner (Fred), and Jason Parrish (Susan), two great grandchildren; Autumn and Sarah Banner. Two Step-grandchildren, Billy Koontz, Jr.; Lori Maness, and Four Step-Great Grandchildren. Molly & Mandy Maness; Liam & Nina Koontz

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Sechrest Funeral Service on E. Lexington Avenue by the Reverend Boyd Holliday. Interment will follow in Floral Garden Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 12:30pm until the hour of the service at the funeral home on Wednesday.

Memorials may be directed to the Altzheimers Association, POB 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011; American Diabetes Association, PO Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312 or to Rankin Memorial Methodist Church, 314 Barker St. High Point, NC 27262.

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