Ethel Lee Ragan Carter

Published 12:00 am Friday, February 13, 2009

EDWARDS — Ethel Lee Ragan Carter died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, at River Region Medical Center. She was 84.

A homemaker, Mrs. Carter was an Edwards resident. She was a member of United M.B. Church in Edwards.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Elijah Carter Sr.; one daughter, Virgie Demby; two brothers, Andrew Ragan and A.B. Ragan; one sister, Eliza Ragan Jones; and her parents, Anderson and Elizabeth Williams Ragan.

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Survivors include three sons, Elijah Carter Jr., Raymond Carter and James Richard Carter, all of Edwards; three daughters, Mary Thompson of Clinton, Delores Watkins of Edwards and Betty Harris of Urbana, Ill.; and grandchildren, great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.