Eric Greggory Carter

1955 - 2016

Eric Greggory Carter
July 20, 1955 ~ November 22, 2016
Redmond, WA
Eric G. Carter, 61, of Redmond, WA passed away in a Skilled Nursing Facility in Seattle Tuesday, November 22nd. A resident of the Manhattan South Street Seaport area during the 9/11 disaster, he had been classified as a residential victim by the World Trade Center Health Program and had valiantly battled an aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma during the latter months of his life. The son of Joan Cooley Carter of Carmel, CA and the late Cdr. Earl L. Carter, the US Navy's first African-American jet pilot, Eric first opened his eyes at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital in North Chicago, IL.
Eric attended Honolulu's Iolani school for most of his secondary school education and was a class of '73 Merit scholar graduate from Indian Hills High, Oakland, NJ. In 1977 he received a BS in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA. Following graduation, he was awarded a Research Fellowship as a PhD Candidate in Astronomy at the University of Texas, Austin, TX specializing in adaptive optics and image processing. Other research engagements in his educational background include Solar Polarimetry Studies at California's Big Bear Solar Observatory and Solar Active Region Studies and Solar Spectrograph Automation at Mees Solar Observatory, Mt. Haleakala, Maui. A Lifetime member of Caltech's Alumnae Association, its Athenaeum Club, and an avid "Trekkie", Eric never bypassed a movie, documentary, book, article or event about the exploration of outer space.
Carter had almost four decades of scientific and technical systems experience in the development of hardware and software products and founded and managed three technology-based firms. His client list included: Texas Instruments, NY Telephone, AT&T, GE, Hess Oil, Hughes Aircraft, Lucasfilm THX, Merrill Lynch, Alliance Consulting, Microsoft Research (WorldWide Telescope), Microsoft Store, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
In addition to his Mother, Eric is survived by his partner of 21 years, Ercole Marsili of Redmond, WA; his brother, Earl of Danbury, CT; his sister, Pamela of Newark, NJ; his aunt, Yvonne Cooley Whaley of Edison and Westfield, NJ; his uncle, William Cooley of Westfield, NJ; and many cousins and friends around the globe. His cremation services were provided by Washington Cremation Centers in Kent, WA and a Memorial service will follow at a later date. In lieu of flowers please send any donations to the American Cancer Society at https://www.cancer.org/involved/donate/memorialgiving/index, or your favorite charity.


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