Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
MERLE B. CARTER
Merle B. Carter, 87, of Laurel, died Saturday, Oct. 26, 2002, at Care Center in Laurel.
Grave side services will be today at Myrick Cemetery in Jones County, with Rev. Tolbert Traylor officiating. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church of Myrick.
She is survived by a son, B.C. Winningham of Hot Springs, Ark.; a daughter, Judy Robinson of Laurel; a brother, Ray W. Blackledge of Laurel, and four grandchildren.
Memory Chapel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
She was the daughter of J. Wilson and Lou Jones Blackledge
October, 2002