Nelda Chavers Carter

Nelda Chavers Carter, 79, a lifelong Autauga County resident, passed away Tuesday October 9, 2018. Visitation will be held Friday from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Ridout’s Prattville Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Saturday October 13th at the funeral home chapel with the Reverend Winston Brooks officiating. Burial will follow in the Carter-Golson Family Cemetery.

Ms. Nelda was born in Autauga County on May 17, 1939 to the late Cecil Chavers and Flossie Newman Chavers. She was a 1958 graduate of Marbury High School and will always be remembered as a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and a wonderful friend to many. All who knew her would agree that “she gave so much and demanded so little”.

Other than her parents she was preceded in death by her loving husband, A. G. Carter, a son Glen Carter, a brother, Sonny Chavers and a sister, LeMerle Shedd. She is survived by a son and daughter in law, Jeff and Ramona Carter; two daughters and sons in law, Jennifer and Adam Childers, Denise and Rip Cord; four sisters and two brothers in law, Nellie Carol and Archie Martin, Agnes Mullins, Shirley Gandy, June and Ken Marbutt, a brother and sister in law, William “Buddy” and Pam Chavers; sister in law, Pat Chavers; brother in law, Otis Shedd; ten grandchildren, three great grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, other family members and close friends.